![]() The folder will have the name of the mbox file. ![]() When you start Thunderbird, Thunderbird will index the file and present it as a folder under "Local Folders". You can then place the mbox file under "Local Folders" while Thunderbird is not running. mbox happens to be the format that is used by Thunderbird. This way, your email, or selected email, is archived into an mbox email file, which you then can download from the Google Takeouts service as a zip file. ![]() The by far better approach, however, would be to use the google service Google Takeouts that is connected to your account. The result is that some mails are copied over to the local folder, but still remain on the gmail account as well, leaving your transaction in an inconsistent state. If you do many files at a time, chances are real that the process gets interrupted. Then you can move selected mail from "All Mail" to a local folder using either drag and drop or, perhaps better and more precise, using right-click, move. The safest way to do that will be from the gmail interface: just remove any labels of any email you want to move out. 2/23/15, 9:52 AM more options I have been using Eudora OSE (which is basically a gui on top of Thunderbird as I understand it) and would like to switch to Thunderbird. Before proceeding, you should empty any Gmail folder except "Gmail - All Mail", such that all mail appears only in the latter. Within Thunderbird, you can move files out of your gmail account to a local folder.
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