<p>Does anyone know how to save all the emails in your thunderbird account onto your harddrive? Thanks</p>
<p>On the left side of Thunderbird, there should be a Local Folders listing. Right click the Local Folders heading and create a new folder. Go to where you usually see your emails, select the ones you want to save. From the upper menu bar, you can do Edit -> Select -> All to grab em all. Then right click the selected group and copy or move them to Local Folders -> “New Folder”.</p>
<p>but does that actually get the emails out of the thunderbird and onto another part of your computer like your desktop?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>It takes the emails from wherever Thunderbird accesses them (many times Thunderbird just “views” the emails on a remote server, so they’re not usually stored on your computer at all). I think Thunderbird uses a special format when storing emails on the local harddrive, so you wouldn’t be able to do much with just the files.</p>
<p>What are you trying to do with the saved emails?</p>
<p>I need to save them because I need to reformat my computers and I don’t want to lose the any of the emails in my inbox. </p>
<p>So you are saying I actually can’t save those emails?</p>
<p>Well, I think that when you click on an email, not opening it, and then go to the File menu, there should be an option to save the email. I know that there is an email format that is the default to save as, but there may be in the dropdown extensions, to save it as a text file or something. I know that’s what I did to save my emails in the past, but I can’t see for myself right now since I’m in school.</p>