Need Help from Any Thunderbird Experts

[DSCHIEF]

have a convoluted problem.

the Wife has tons of Emails in multiple sub folders .

I would like to clean everything off of the hard drive & burn it to a CD.

She would then have a clean Inbox, with no sub-folders. need to retain access to old Emails . but Do Not want to import them back into the active profile.

1. Can it be done?
2. How do I do it.

[rwest]

I did it for my wife for IE once before, so you should be able to do it.

You'll need to find out where thunderbird stores that info. I'm gonna guess that will be OS dependent. In XP a lot of it was stored in 'application data', it's a hidden folder under the user name within documents and settings.

In 'folder options' you'll want to check the box that enables hidden folders.
Then I would look in My Computer/C drive/Documents and settings/user name/app data

I'm not gonna garrantee it's there, but that's where Id start if your running XP.

Burning the files to disk is easy, but I'd just use a flash drive today.