Move Thunderbird e-mail folder to new PC

[jdc2000]

I have a folder in Thunderbird on one PC that I need to be able to transfer to Thunderbird on another PC. Note that I only want to transfer ONE particular folder, not the entire Inbox. Transferring the Ibxos and deleting the other folders is not an option. If anyone has any ideas on how to do this, suggestions would be appreciated.

I have thought of Exporting the e-mails to .eml files, and then importing them, but this does not preseve the original subject lines, times, and dates, so sorting the results is extremely difficult.

Thanks for any ideas.

[burgert]

Try Mozbackup, back up Thunderbird, put it on a CD and transfer it to the other PC.
Hope this helps.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

[jdc2000]

Thanks for the idea. I tried that, but it only backs up and transfers the entire Inbox, which I don't want. I'm trying another Add-On now that may work. Other ideas will be appreciated.

[HAN]

If all else fails, transfer the entire Inbox and then delete everything you don't want/need. Finally, compact the Inbox to finish up the deletion process.

[jdc2000]

Thanks for the idea, HAN. Unfortunately, it has two drawbacks. First, there is 3.72 GB of data. It would take hours to delete the unwanted items and compact, and second, there is no guarantee that traces of other mail would not be detectable, which would not be desirable.

Commercial software (payware) programs would be considered for this, if any are available.

[K G G]

jdc2000 - does Thunderbird have an archive option?

If so, archive just the folder in question, which should create a new file and voila - works in Outlook, hope here as well.

KGG

[HAN]

Maybe something like ThunderStor? http://bitdaddys.com/thunderstor.html (I've never tried it but for $10, might be worth a try!)

[jdc2000]

Thanks for the suggestion HAN. I have tried something like that, but the drawback to eml exporters is that they name the e-mail with the subject first. This makes reviewing them in chronological order extremely difficult. If I could find one that names them like YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS_Subject_NNNN that would work. It would also need to allow for possible duplicate names and add an appropriate suffix. I have also written a VB6 program to rename the files, but while that works, it does take time to run and still requires manual resolution of certain issues.