Re: Backing up and restoring Mozilla mail and news

Kevin Farrows wrote:

> Hi, I am currently evaluating Mozilla with a view to moving all my
> browsing, mail and news activities to it. I am wondering how I would go
> about backing up my mozilla mail database and settings prior to having
> to reinstall windows. I notice that there is a load of mozilla related
> files in my c:\Documents and Settings\Kevin\Application Data\Mozilla
> folder. So is it just a case of backing up this folder, reinstall
> windows, reinstall mozilla and then restore this folder? There seems to
> be nothing in the online help related to this.
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>
>
> remove nospamhere if replying by mail
>
That is the location of your profile folder, where all you mail,
newsgroups, bookmarks, etc. information is stored. I would restore the
folder before the reinstall of Moz, so that the new Moz install will
find the profile. Otherwise, it will create a new one.

Note that the profile is untouched by the unistall, install process.

Lee

Leonidas Jones

a.natoli wrote:
> I am using window XP Professional and want to copy across to my laptop
> all the email and settings as well as bookmarks
>
> I just cannot find them in c:\Documents and Settings\angelo\ there is
> no application data in my Laptop
>
> Can anyone help??
> Thank you
Its a hidden folder. GO to the angelo folder drop dwon the Tools menu,
click the View tab and check the radio button for Show hidden files and
folders.

Lee