thunderbird backup email

[valemon]

I am going to delete opensuse partition and install a different distro, don't know yet. So I got 265 mails in thunderbird, some of them really important. Can I save them somehow or backup them?

[devils casper]

you can save all emails. look in .thunderbird folder in your Home folder.
i am a kmail user and i always copy whole .kmail and .mozilla ( for firefox settings) folders and place it in newly installed distro.
that way you wont loose any email, settings or passwords.

HTH,
Casper

[valemon]

Thanks again that was really helpful

[tonimarie]

you can save all emails. look in .thunderbird folder in your Home folder.
i am a kmail user and i always copy whole .kmail and .mozilla ( for firefox settings) folders and place it in newly installed distro.
that way you wont loose any email, settings or passwords.

HTH,
Casper

i have been looking through all my stuff under SUSE and i can't seem to find any of it anywhere. i have literally hundreds of emails that i can't afford to lose. under windows i used to know where to look but under linux i am only just learning. need to back them up so that i can rebuild the system

[towy71]

in konqeror View>Show Hidden Files and look out for the files with a full stop in front of the name