[Discuss] Thunderbird: recovering old messages

[Murray Strome]

I reinstalled Kubuntu on my wife's computer.  I had backed up 
everything. However, I am having trouble recovering her old E-mail 
messages. They are all there, but I cannot figure out how to get them.

When I reinstalled Thunderbird, the .mozilla-thunderbird directory is 
created. The area where all the mail information is included is <random 
number>.default

I tried copying all the information from the saved <different random 
number>.default to the new one. However, it still wants me to set up a 
new account, and I cannot figure out how to access the information in 
all the mail folders, etc. that are there.

I think I have succeeded to do this in the past, but cannot remember how 
to do so.  I have searched for solutions with google, but have not come 
up with anything that works.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Murray