Methods to Import SBD into Thunderbird Profile Without Corruption

How to Import SBD into Thunderbird Account: An Excellent Solution

User Query 1: "Some days ago, one of my friends installed Thunderbird and created a new account. He already has a Thunderbird profile. He exported the MBOX files from his older Thunderbird account to the new profile. After migrating the MBOX emails, he tried to open and read the MBOX file in the new account. But didn’t get any email messages in the exported folder. One of his friends told him to move SBD files to Mozilla Thunderbird. So, do you have any idea to import SBD into Thunderbird account?"

User Query 2: "I accidentally deleted my inbox.sbd and subfolders from Thunderbird account. But it is present on the local storage of my system. How can I transfer the SBD file into Thunderbird profile? Is there any solution?"

In this blog, we are going to explain how to convert SBD file data into Thunderbird. It consists of one manual method and by using a third-party tool method. These techniques help you to import SBD folder into Thunderbird and you can import and open MBOX in Thunderbird account by following this article.

About SBD files

SBD files are the Sub-Directory file provided by the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The Thunderbird stores email messages in .mbox file extension. But we cannot view the files with this .mbox extension. In SBD file, the messages will be stored in two formats: one is with the extension of .msf and another one is with no extension. The .msf file format contains an index of the email messages in Thunderbird and the file with no extension has contained the exact message body. Anyhow, the SBD file that contains the subfolders in it.

Need to Import SBD into Thunderbird

If a user cannot read the moved MBOX files from a Thunderbird account to the new one, he/she can view it by exporting the SBD files to Thunderbird. In this SBD files, the MBOX message and MSF file are present. For transferring the SBD data there are some methods.

Manual method to Open .sbd Files in Thunderbird

The “ImportExportTool” is an add-on that is provided by Mozilla for Thunderbird to perform various types of tasks. To add SBD file in Thunderbird using the manual method, you have to install the “ImportExportTool” in your Thunderbird account. By using this method you can open SBD folder in Thunderbird.

Here, we are providing the steps in the manual method to import SBD into Thunderbird profile. Follow the steps to move SBD file into Thunderbird.

1. Open Thunderbird email client to migrate SBD files to Thunderbird. 





2. From here click on “ImportExportTools” >> Import MBOX Files.





3. After this, you can get a Files MBOX wizard. From here you have to select “Import directly one or more MBOX files” in order to import SBD into Thunderbird. And click OK button.





4. Now, select the file that you want to convert to Thunderbird from the file location. Choose the files and click OK. Likewise, you can transfer SBD folder to Thunderbird.

Limitations of Manual Method

While exporting SBD file to Mozilla Thunderbird, you should face some problems. Because the manual method has some limitations.

• More lengthy procedure.
• Timing consuming.
• Not easy to read SBD data to Thunderbird in bulk.
• Sometimes data will be corrupted.
• Data loss will occur.

Expert Method to import SBD into Thunderbird

SysTools Thunderbird Import Wizard is a software application which allows the user to add SBD into Thunderbird. The software can transfer multiple numbers of SBD files to Thunderbird in bulk at one time using “Select File” or “Select Folder” option. The user can transfer emails with the attachments. No any size limitations in the software while converting SBD file to Thunderbird. It can be supported on all Windows OS like 10, 8.1, 8, 7, etc.

Conclusion

SBD files are the sub-directories of Thunderbird that contains MBOX file and the MSF file. The MSF file format is the index file of email messages. If you deleted the MSF file, it will not cause any problems. MBOX file contains the message body and it has no extension. To open SBD file, you just need to move SBD data to Thunderbird which contains MBOX file in it. Here we have discussed the manual method and third-party technique to import SBD into Thunderbird. The manual method has some limitations and it is a lengthy process. By using the third-party tool you can read SBD data to Thunderbird without any issues.