It was easy to load BitTorrent Sync on all 3 of my machines and let BitTorrent Sync work it’s magic.thunderbird directory BitTorrent Sync synchronizes your files across devices without storing any of your data in the cloud. BitTorrent SyncĪll of that changed when I started using BitTorrent Sync for email backup. Worse, I’d corrupt my Thunderbird profile, which meant loss of email and I’d have to restore from backup. There would be some configuration or something goofy that couldn’t get it working again. thunderbird folder on my Linux installations ( Peppermint Four and Linux Mint 15 are working great!), I was always unable to restore them. Although I’d tried saving my Thunderbird profile to an external USB flash drive (and eventually a hard drive), I just couldn’t get it to work. The biggest challenge I faced included backing up the. This is a big deal because I have a lot of email from multiple personal accounts, as well as work accounts that I like to keep an encrypted backup of.
Read on for Miguel’s tutorial (adapted from his blog) The ProblemĪ few weekends ago, I realized that I didn’t have a backup of my Thunderbird email (over 5 gigs) anywhere except on one machine. In this week’s Sync Hacks, Miguel Guhlin ( shows us how to securely backup our Thunderbird emails. Can’t wait to hear what you guys cook up. If you have an interesting use or how-to, shoot us an email at. Sync is our free, unlimited, and secure file-syncing application. In Sync Hacks, we spotlight cool uses of Sync from the creative minds of our users.
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