Transferring emails from old PC to new PC

[jharris hycotec]

My old PC (XP OS) crashed. I have the hard drive. I want to retrieve the emails that I had on the old PC. I have the Profile for the 2 email accounts I had on Thunderbird (both "Allstream.net" accounts). I have installed Thunderbird and the 2 email accounts to the new PC (Windows 10) but nothing seems to be working to transfer the old profile and stored (hopefully) emails. I have the old hard drive connected to the new PC. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[DanRaisch]

See this article -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC

[tanstaafl]

If you can find where the old profiles are stored, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_p ... hunderbird for how to move the profile in a way that Thunderbird knows where it is. You could find Thunderbird profiles by searching for directories that have BOTH a prefs.js and a abook.mab file. A Firefox profile would have just the prefs.js file.

You could also search for a profiles.ini file. It specifies where profiles are stored. You will probably have a profiles.ini file for Firefox and another one for Thunderbird. The drive letter will be out of date but the rest of paths should still be valid. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file