How add old Thunderbird messages on old pc to existing new Thunderbird messages on new pc ?

Thanks to Microsoft, I have had to reinstall Windows 7 several times, and now have three lots of Thunderbird installations, one of them on a second disk, D, on my current pc. The C drive holds my current W7 installation and has my current Thunderbird installation.
1. I would like to incorporate the old Thunderbird messages from D - ideally both received and sent, but at least received - into my current installation on the C drive. Is this possible, and if so how, please ?
(I have tried searching the knowledge base, but do not have knowledge of the right keywords to bring up any past answers to this query)
2. A further possibility, but not critical, would be to incorporate the Thunderbird messages from my laptop's W7 installation - and ideally in future synchronize them, so that updates (downloaded mesages and sent messages) on one get added to the other.
3. A third possibility, which would be nice but is even less critical, would be to incorporate the really very old (oh, must be a couple of years) messages from the Thunderbird installation in the WindowsOld folder on my C drive. I have looked at an answer on this, but it only applied to moving to a new installation of Thunderbird, not an existing one.
Space is not a problem, by the way.
Grateful for any help on at least the first point - thanks.

For item 1, you might want to consider leaving things where they are and use multiple profiles to switch between them. see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles
Another approach is to export mail from your D drive and import to your current TB. There is an add-on to TB which allows import and export of emails in various formats to a separate storage medium (external disk, thumb drive, etc.). You could do the same for your laptop.
The instructions on how to download and install it can be found at http://barryduggan.info/exportMail.php
For item 2, if you use IMAP instead of POP, messages will be synchronized. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/glossary-terms-including-types-accounts
For item 3, the same export/import process should work for those messages as well.
<b>NOTE:</b> for all of the export and import processes, select individual emails (even if it's all of them!) rather than folders, unless you are going to use separate folders for each imported batch.
Backup your current profile before you start all this!
Let me know if you need clarification.

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