Then I burned a CD on my Windows machine of this Windows Thunderbird email weird named profile folder to capture the data in it.ĥ. You have to turn on "see hidden files" and "show file extension names" on the Windows machine to find it. Search on Mozilla and/or "Thunderbird" then find the Thunderbird profiles directory and it will have some weird name like "fault". It was somewhere in the Windows user data area. I was on Windows and going to Apple so I looked for the weird named Thunderbird email profile folder on the Windows machine. Don't just hit "x" to get it off the screen but officially quit the program.ģ. Then I did a "quit" of Thunderbird from the file menu on both the Windows and Apple machines.
#Thunderbird for mac osx install
First I had to install the latest versions of Thunderbird on both the Windows and Apple machines.Ģ.
I assume that you could adapt this methodology to transfer mail from Thunderbird Windows to Thunderbird Mac.Įmail files transfer from Windows Thunderbird to Apple mac Thunderbirdġ. Copy them to your Mac, & use your Mac e-mail program's Import command (under File in Mail & Entourage) & import them. Within that folder follow this path: \Mail\Local Folders\Outlook Mail\Personal Folders.sbd - that's the folder that contains the mail from your Outlook mail boxes. The June 08 Macworld Magazine, the article Evade E-mail Exasperation by Christopher Breen, - 76, gives this method for transferring mail from Outlook on a PC to Mail or Entourage on a Mac.ġ.) You've got Outlook with a bunch of old mail messages on a PC.Ģ.) Install Thunderbird for Windows on the PC.Ĥ.) Import your Outlook mail into Thunderbird for Windows.ĥ.) Navigate to your user folder on Windows & follow this path: \Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles and you'll see a folder made up of a 'hodgepodge' of characters. I'm not sure this'll help, but it very well might.