Am I being jaundiced?

[pctech]

Good stuff, sounds like it was registry corruption to me.

[Broadback]

Now having had to spend hours getting my machine back to it original state, though I have lost data such as emails, what can I do to save every bit of my date, including things like email account data? I use Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox.

[Glenn]

This may help to locate the files http://www.z-a-recovery.com/thunderbird-email-database.htm

[pctech]

As Glenn says, if Thunderbird holds mail in a database (I use Outlook 2010 for my mail so apologies I don't know much about Thunderbird) then the best thing to do is back that up regularly in future.

[JB]

Thunderbird keeps it's data at:-

C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\NNNNNN.default

on Windows 7 and is a doddle to back up. The path for XP isn't that different either.

[Rik]

Thanks, JB.

[Broadback]

Thanks JB, is it sufficient simply copy to another disc, then copy back when you need to restore it?

[pctech]

Should be

[JB]

Thanks JB, is it sufficient simply copy to another disc, then copy back when you need to restore it?

Yes, that's what I do. I move between UK and Spain and have Thunderbird installed on two machines. I just copy the profile folder with it's files and sub directories from one machine to the other. It means that any extensions move at the same time. I actually zip the folder but that is just for transport convenience.

I do the same with Firefox which has it's data directory at :- C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nnnnnnn.default
on my machines with Win 7.