https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

This don´t resolve my answer, I don´t want to chnage/move my profile, I want to clean all the emails of my profile and add a new local folder with these old emails.

Airmail said

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

netwes said

This don´t resolve my answer, I don´t want to chnage/move my profile, I want to clean all the emails of my profile and add a new local folder with these old emails.

It comes down to what you mean by "add a new local folder". On in your file system, or the Local Folders account in Thunderbird?

The Local Folders account in Thunderbird is stored in your profile.

You could export all the old messages (maybe to HTML or PDF) and then archive those.

Or you could create a new folder (or folders) under Local Folders in Thunderbird and move your old messages into them.

Hi Zenos, what I mean is this: in outlook when my data file it is over 5 GB, I save it and create a new one then I use the backed up file as a data file folder to check old email. I want to do the same in thunderbird, I found a plug in called "Local folder" but dont work as well as I expect, it have some fails.

Zenos said

netwes said

This don´t resolve my answer, I don´t want to chnage/move my profile, I want to clean all the emails of my profile and add a new local folder with these old emails.

It comes down to what you mean by "add a new local folder". On in your file system, or the Local Folders account in Thunderbird?

The Local Folders account in Thunderbird is stored in your profile.

You could export all the old messages (maybe to HTML or PDF) and then archive those.

Or you could create a new folder (or folders) under Local Folders in Thunderbird and move your old messages into them.

Lets go back to data school.

Outlook uses a PST or OST file to store your data. Thunderbird does not. It \uses a separate file for each folder and does not allow you to meddle in the file system representation of that data,

What I think I am saying if forget what you think you know from Outlook and you will get on much better.

Want to put all you mail in a archive. Press the A button and whatever mail is selected will be moved to the folder designated for archive for that account. That us a user controlled setting.

What I need is to save all the emails with the same strucure and start with a new profile, if I need to check and old email I can add this saved file to thunderbird and check the mails. I want to do this because in my company we have imaps accounts with a size of 10GB, so when we pass this size we change the profile to start with a new one and keep the old messages to have access during 2 years. This was what we did with outlook and pst files.

Thanks in advance.

Your either not listening, or not comprehending. I am not sure which. Thunderbird had no PST type structure, no archive format. So the process that worked with Outlook will not work with Thunderbird. A completely different type of approach is required.

Set the Archive to the local folders in your account settings. Archive your mail.

Hi Matt,

I understand perfectly how thunderbird works and how outlook works, because I use both, the thing is that I want to get a similar way to manage old emails in thunderbird as in outlook, I know that thunderbird do not use pst file and you can define if you eant to store mails as a bloco or as a maildir. In my company we need to keep mails from years because we need to recover old information frecuetnly, thats the reason I want to do this.

Thanks,

Matt said

Your either not listening, or not comprehending. I am not sure which. Thunderbird had no PST type structure, no archive format. So the process that worked with Outlook will not work with Thunderbird. A completely different type of approach is required. Set the Archive to the local folders in your account settings. Archive your mail.

What Matt said. Store them in Local Folders. They are then simply just another file on your file system, just as a pst file is.

Yes but if I do this using the local folder plugin In each subfolder appear some messages dated in 1970 with ascii code.

re :Yes but if I do this using the local folder plugin I found a plug in called "Local folder" but dont work as well as I expect, it have some fails. I presume you are talking about this addon:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/localfolder/

There is nothing wrong in creating the additional folder, but there's no need for it.

If you understand how Thunderbird works then you would realise that each new folder in the default 'Local Folders' account will be a completely separate file stored in the 'Local Folders' folder. Adding another new 'local folder' using the addon tool will only create another folder with more files in the same profile folder. There is nothing wrong with that, but there's no need for it. 'Local Folders' is a Folder and as such can hold loads of files.

Outlook stores all of the folders within a single .pst file. So you can understand how that .pst file can become huge, hence the need to do what you have been doing in Outlook to resolve that issue. Thunderbird however stores all of the messages for each folder in a file named after the folder, which is in turn is stored in a mail account folder in your profile. This means you do not have the same problem .pst file issue in Thunderbird.

To sum up: You are trying to resolve a problem (which you experience in Outlook) that does not exist in Thunderbird.

However, just in case we have not fully understood the issue, are you saying you that you have a hard drive disk space issue with your computer and therefore need to get emails off your computer to an external storage device?

Archiving: You can set up your Archive Options for each imap mail account to Archive selected emails in a specific folder. As you want 'Archive' off the server, I presume you have an 'Archives' folder in 'Local Folders'. You would have configured the Archive Options to retain folder structure and specified to use either yearly or monthly depending upon volumn of emails.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/archived-messages

So you should be seeing this sort of folder structure. As emails are broken down into monthly structure and each folder is also retained, it is a smaller file structure. An example: Local Folders >> Archives >> >> 2013 >> >> 2014 >> >> 2015 >> >> >> 2015-01 >> >> >> >> Client A >> >> >> >> Client B >> >> >> >> Sent

re :Yes but if I do this using the local folder plugin In each subfolder appear some messages dated in 1970 with ascii code.

This (some messages dated in 1970 ) sounds like you have lost date headers.

There might be some folder corruption going on. At this point I would advise, if you have not already done one, create a backup of your Profile folder. I'm assuming you synchronise your imap subscribed folders for offline use, so that a copy is stored in Thunderbird profile folders.

How did you move the emails - the process you used? I'm presuming you synchronised the imap folders for offline use to make sure you had a copy downloaded into the profile folder. then in offline mode used the 'Copy to' and selected the new 'local folder' you created using the addon extension?

Did you do anything different to this process?

Are the emails you put in the new local folder still available in the original imap mail account?