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How can I move all of my existing emails (about 20GB) to a secondary internal hard drive and have all future incoming emails stored here?

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How can I move all of my existing Thunderbird emails (about 20GB) to a secondary internal hard drive and have all future incoming emails stored here - I'm running out of space on C drive

Thank you

How can I move all of my existing Thunderbird emails (about 20GB) to a secondary internal hard drive and have all future incoming emails stored here - I'm running out of space on C drive Thank you

Réiteach roghnaithe

That looks good, except that I'd expect to see a profile name, in the form of nnnnnnn.default, where nnnnnnn represents a pseudo-random string: Path=E:\Z - THUNDERBIRD\Profiles\nnnnnnn.default I'm wary of spaces in pathnames. Sometimes you might need to put quotes round it, other times not. No spaces, no doubts. ;-)

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Move your profile to that drive.

See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

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Zenos said

Move your profile to that drive. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

So the .ini file might read:

[General] StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=E:\Z - THUNDERBIRD\Profiles

Is that correct for location of:

E:\Z - THUNDERBIRD\Profiles

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IsRelative=0 in your case. You are giving a full absolute pathname, hence it's not relative. ;-)

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Thanks so it would be:

[General] StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=E:\Z - THUNDERBIRD\Profiles

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Should have mentioned when I started the thread I'm an inexperienced home computer user!

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

That looks good, except that I'd expect to see a profile name, in the form of nnnnnnn.default, where nnnnnnn represents a pseudo-random string: Path=E:\Z - THUNDERBIRD\Profiles\nnnnnnn.default I'm wary of spaces in pathnames. Sometimes you might need to put quotes round it, other times not. No spaces, no doubts. ;-)

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Got it! Thanks for your help. My C drive can breath again!