Find Your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile Directory
To locate and open the folder where Mozilla Thunderbird keeps your profile including settings and messages:
On Windows:
- Select Run... from the Start menu.
- Type "%appdata%" (without the quotes).
- Hit Return.
- Open the Thunderbird folder.
- Go to the Profiles folder.
- Now open the folder of your Mozilla Thunderbird profile (probably "********.default" where the '*'s stand for random characters) and the folder beneath it.
On Mac OS X:
- Open Finder.
- Press Command-Shift-G.
- Type "~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/".
- Alternatively,
- open your home folder,
- go to the Library folder,
- and open the Thunderbird and then the Profiles folder.
- Open your profile's directory (probably "********.default" where the '*'s stand for random characters).
On Linux:
- Go to the ".thunderbird" directory in your home "~" directory.
- Open the profile directory (probably "********.default" where the '*'s stand for random characters).
Now you can back up or move your Mozilla Thunderbird profile, or just archive specific folders.