Hi, the question above summarizes my problem. I changed from live mail to Thindebrid, which I like very much on first view. But now aobut the folders....With more than 300 folders locally stored inside livemail I tried to create a new folder inside the default folders in live mail, and then copy the content of the folders, that is mails form the local folder to this one. Then it showde up automatically in Thunderbird (great!) in the Inbox and then I dragged this folder to the local folders inside thunderbird (which takes ages as it is downloading the messages again) And then i deleted the folder in the inbox, both in live mail and thunderbird. Bit this is very painstaking and costs about 15 minuten per folder. So it is possible but I should enter a monastry... Has anyone any idea how to do this is more efficiently...after all, it is a computer... thanks in advance! Gravioli