Can I copy my mailboxes to another computer?

Submitted by Joe Zebran on Fri, 07/12/2013 - 08:49

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Love the program, been using it for years.  I have a second computer that also runs WinXP that updated to Firefox ver 22, and I noticed that no mail accounts show up for X-notifier.  Is there a way to get them back on PC #2, or maybe could I copy the login files from my main PC #1 which is still using Firefox 20.0.1 and still shows all my accounts?

 

Where do these login files get stored in WinXP if I wanted to back them up?

 

Thanks!

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tobwithu

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 08:54

Use the Export/Import function in options.

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CFBancroft

Fri, 07/12/2013 - 09:07

IF not, here how to guide Step by Step

http://xnotifier.tobwithu.com/dp/node/419

Enjoy your 2nd computer...

Joe Zebran

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 03:48

Thank you for your kind replies.  I did see the Import/Export feature, but I was kind of hoping there was a way to globally copy ALL of the mailboxes, since I have 29 accounts.  (I use separate emails for Amazon, Ebay, other retailsers, for each forum, various hobbies, personal, business, etc.)

 

I was thinking there must be a place all my accounts are stored in WinXP Pro to Globally copy and paste all of them to second computer at once?  Or maybe reinstalling the program on 2nd computer updated to latest Firefox would restore them?  I seem to remember having a similar problem years back where a Firefox upgrade "broke" my account listings, but reinstalling something fixed it so they all displayed again.

RpD

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 04:40

So, you're asking to ('global') copy mail accounts for some other program besides Firefox/X-Notifier? 
It's still not clear what 'global' means... global to Firefox, global to your PC?

Export will save -ALL- the accounts you have defined in X-Notifier... all at once in one backup file.
You then set up Firefox on the 2nd machine, install X-Notifier and import the backup file and you'll have ALL your accounts in X-Notifier.

If you want to save/move all Firefox settings of your profile... you can copy the Firefox profile folder, which (for Windows XP), you'll find in...
C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>
...copy those folder(s) to the same place on the new machine, then use FF profile manager to define a new account with the same name as you originally used to set up that profile/folder. Run... firefox.exe -p ...to bring up the profile manager... once you enter the same name it should look and find the existing folder and ask if you want to use it.  Choose yes/ok.... then you should have the same FF profile on the 2nd machine.

Otherwise, mail accounts are dependent on what program you're using... X-Notifier is just a newmail checker in Firefox.
Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, and other email client programs' accounts have their own storage.

Joe Zebran

Wed, 07/17/2013 - 15:09

I think I have a misunderstanding of how the Export/Import works.  It seemed that it was only exporting/importing a single account at a time, not all my email accounts I have working with Firefox/I.E 

My goal is to back them all up on one computer, then copy that backup (export) to a USB key; plug that USB key into 2nd computer where I would import them for Firefox/IE use.  If you are saying that all 25-30 Email accounts I have setup with gmail, yahoo, etc. are in the export, that is what I am calling a "global" exporting of all accounts at once.

RpD

Wed, 07/17/2013 - 16:10

(To digress:  I think you meant Firefox/X-N ...since I.E. is usually Internet Explorer for which there is -no- X-Notifier version.)

Ok, yes... all the X-Notifier accounts are exported, as I said... ALL the accounts, ALL at once, ALL in ONE export file... that is what you are referring to as 'global'.    Sorry if that seems terse... but X-Notifier does not export/import just one account at a time (unless you only define one account... and delete the two defaults, XN-forums and XN-scripts).  Exporting just one account at a time would just be silly.  It's all... or none (as far as I know... just being another X-Notifier user, such as yourself).  There isn't really a reason to export just one account, to another X-Notifier or for a backup... the export/backup is only usable by X-Notifier.
--- So, yes... to do what you want... just use X-Notifier's Options, Export ...to a file... either directly to your USB stick, or onto your hard drive for a good backup, then copy that export file to your USB stick.  Take the USB stick to the 2nd computer, use X-Notifier Options there, and Import the file from the USB stick... you will have ALL your accounts... one export, one file, one import... voila, done.

If there were some accounts in X-Notifier and some other accounts in Firefox... then you might refer to the set of all of those in both X-Notifier and Firefox as a global set... but since all the accounts are simply in X-Notifier, it's hard to be global as there is no subset region.

Yes, I am a grammar/logic police officer, badge #777.  No ticket, just a warning this time... >;}  Heheh... (a joke, just a joke).

 

Joe Zebran

Thu, 07/18/2013 - 01:40

LOL!  Nothing wrong with being precise.  What global means to me in this context is not what it means to others.

I meant to just say Firefox & Chrome.  X-Notifier is one of the main reasons I stopped using I.E.  Anway, you have given me the perfect answer, and it worked!   Thank you kindly!