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Restoring mbox file back to gmail account profile

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david.famuyide
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Hi Everyone,

I backed up a gmail account data and now i want to restore the data back to the gmail account. I download thunderbird and i used the importtool to import the mbox file to the local folder. I also added the gmail account i want to restore the files back to in thunderbird. Every time i copy the data and from the local folder(mbox file) to the gmail email account i want to restore, he stops with an error "connection to server failed" when the emails copied get to about 400. I dont know why.

Hi Everyone, I backed up a gmail account data and now i want to restore the data back to the gmail account. I download thunderbird and i used the importtool to import the mbox file to the local folder. I also added the gmail account i want to restore the files back to in thunderbird. Every time i copy the data and from the local folder(mbox file) to the gmail email account i want to restore, he stops with an error "connection to server failed" when the emails copied get to about 400. I dont know why.
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sfhowes
sfhowes
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See this topic about uploading to IMAP folders:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1291312