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How to transfer folders from one mac to another

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I just purchased a new mac, I have installed thunderbird and have my email accounts up and running. But I need all my emails that are in folders that I created on my old computer. How do I transfer all these folders into my new Mac?

I just purchased a new mac, I have installed thunderbird and have my email accounts up and running. But I need all my emails that are in folders that I created on my old computer. How do I transfer all these folders into my new Mac?

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well it would have been good if you had done that first. Now you have the issue of trying to merge two profiles of mail. What a mess that can be,

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Install the import export tools and use them to import mail from your old profile folders.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_where-is-my-profile-stored