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How to Move Thunderbird Emails to New Computer? - jackera - 01-09-2025 Follow the below given steps to manually move Thundderbird emails to new computer; open Thunderbird on your desktop and go to Menu tab. Select Open Folder and you’ll be redirected to Windows Explorer. The Thunderbird Profile Folder is located here. Go 3 levels up, find the Roaming folder, and copy all of your folders and files. Move the profile files from the external drive to the new computer and paste them into the same directory. Configure Thunderbird on the new machine to recognize the previous profile. That's how you can transfer Thunderbird emails to new computer but this is a lengthy and complicated process. Users must have technical expert to perform the process. However, you can easily do it with Advik Thunderbird Converter. Using this tool, you can export Thunderbird emails to MBOX format and import this file into Thunderbird profile on new computer.