How to Backup Thunderbird Emails to External Hard Drive?

Just imagine one morning you open your Thunderbird email client and suddenly, your important emails are gone due to a system crash, virus attack, or accidental deletion. Scary right? Emails are not just digital messages – they carry business records, personal conversations, and financial reports. That’s why saving Thunderbird mailbox on an external hard drive isn’t just a precaution, it’s a necessity. By keeping a backup outside your system, you make sure your valuable data is safe even if your PC crashes. In this blog, we’ll guide you on how to backup Thunderbird emails to external hard drive. Here, we will discuss two different ways to save Thunderbird emails to hard drive with attachments.

Manually (free) – useful for saving a few email folders

Automatically – useful if you need to back up the entire mailbox

Let’s explore both in detail.

How to Save Thunderbird Emails to Hard Drive Free?

Although Thunderbird does not have a built-in backup tool, but using ImportExportTools NG, you can easily backup Thunderbird emails to external hard drive

1. Open the Thunderbird application on your system.

2. Press the Alt button and choose Tools >> Themes & Add-ons.

3. Search for ImportExportTools NG and add it to your application.

4. Now right-click on the email folder you want to export.

5. Select ImportExportTools NG >> Export Messages ina Folder >> Select File formats.

 

6. Alternatively, You can also choose Export Folder (mbox) >> select option.

7. Moreover, right-click on your email ID and export your complete profile.

Done! Here starts the export process.

Note: It will take some time to save Thunderbird emails to hard drive, depending on the amount of data.

How to Backup Thunderbird Emails to External Hard Drive Automatically?

Advik Thunderbird Converter software is exactly what you need. This Windows-based software can backup Thunderbird emails into multiple file formats. All Thunderbird data will be exported at once without losing a single bit of information. Apart from this, it also provides various advanced email filter options for selective email backup. The software can also save Thunderbird emails to external drive or any other storage device directly. It will preserve email attributes (cc, bcc, date, attachment, time, signature, message, etc.) and mailbox structure during the process

Download the software and try it now.

 

Note: With the trial demo version, you can export 25 items from each folder for free.

Steps to Backup Thunderbird Mailbox to Hard Drive

1. Run the software and select your Thunderbird profile.

2. Choose the email folders you want to backup.

3. Select the saving option from the given list.

4. Select your Hard Drive as target location and click Next button.

The software will start saving your emails from Thunderbird to External Drive automatically.

After that, it will show a successful pop-up message once done.

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Conclusion

In this post, we have discussed two different ways to backup Thunderbird emails to external hard drive. There is no doubt that the manual method is workable and not complicated at all. However, people who want to save Thunderbird emails in various other file formats should try this automatic software. It will give the option to save data in 20+ file formats.