Move emails in local folder on a PC to a new Mac
I am updating from a PC running Windows 10 to an iMac OS 10.3.6. I have important emails stored in local folders on the PC that I need to keep and access when necessary from the Mac. I have read everything I can find on your website and in forums, and have copied the Thunderbird files onto a thumb drive. (See below the files that were copied). I have no idea what to do now. Please help!
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The profile folder on the W10 computer is here:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\8charstring.default
Your picture shows the contents of
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles\8charstring.default
which doesn't contain the mail folders, just data caches.
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Pictures aren't allowed on your first post, but if you copied the mbox files, the large ones with no extension, just copy them to the Mail/Local Folders subfolder of the Mac's profile folder: Help/Troubleshooting Information, click Open or Show Folder, close TB, copy the mbox files to Local Folders. They should appear under Local Folders in TB when you launch TB.
I don't see anything like an mbox file. Here is what I copied from the PC. Maybe this will help...
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The profile folder on the W10 computer is here:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\8charstring.default
Your picture shows the contents of
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles\8charstring.default
which doesn't contain the mail folders, just data caches.