{"id":63884,"date":"2024-05-05T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/63884\/thunderbird-moving-from-windows-to-linux\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T14:53:13","slug":"thunderbird-moving-from-windows-to-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/63884\/thunderbird-moving-from-windows-to-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird: Moving from Windows to Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move to Linux and take your mails with you, simply copy your profile.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbird data can be easily transferred to another computer. All we need to do is copy the profile. In this article, we will show you how to do this from Windows to Linux. However, the procedure is basically the same the other way round or on another Windows computer. This saves us having to set up the accounts again on the other computer and download the data.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/63884\/thunderbird-moving-from-windows-to-linux\/#Video\" >Video<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/63884\/thunderbird-moving-from-windows-to-linux\/#Save_profile_in_Windows\" >Save profile in Windows<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/63884\/thunderbird-moving-from-windows-to-linux\/#Profile_path_in_Linux_import_data\" >Profile path in Linux, import data<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Video\"><\/span>Video<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJ1GX2gkjuI?si=Bu8lHtA-AGC_Dbui\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Save_profile_in_Windows\"><\/span>Save profile in Windows<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get started. First, make sure that Thunderbird is closed. The profile is located in the following folder:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nC:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Roaming\\Thunderbird\\Profiles\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8220;Username&#8221; must be replaced by the user name. There are usually two folders in this directory. You can recognise the correct folder by the &#8220;-release&#8221; and also by the fact that it is correspondingly large.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"744\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_1.png 688w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_1-277x300.png 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We now copy the folder to the new computer. Either via USB stick, network&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Profile_path_in_Linux_import_data\"><\/span>Profile path in Linux, import data<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In Linux, we now also need to find the folder for the profiles. The path is:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n\/home\/da\/.thunderbird\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8220;da&#8221; is my user name in my case. Once we have started Thunderbird at least once, a profile is created.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_2.png 682w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_2-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note, all previous data will be deleted. If data could be included, we can still make a copy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"219\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_3.png 427w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_3-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We now open the profile folder and delete all files.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_4.png 618w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_4-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_4-100x80.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we just have to import the profile data again. To do this, we unzip\/copy the files and folders into the now empty profile directory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1307\" height=\"547\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_5.png 1307w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_5-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_5-1024x429.png 1024w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_5-768x321.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1307px) 100vw, 1307px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Done! When we start Thunderbird now, all mails, accounts and settings should be available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"754\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_6.png 754w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/thunderbird_linux_6-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move to Linux and take your mails with you, simply copy your profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1682,1558],"class_list":["post-63884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-linux-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}