Accidently deleted emails older than 90 days... stupid me!
How can I retrieve emails I deleted by selecting wrong parameters in the wrong area. I was in Thunderbird > Acct Settings > Synchronization & Storage and saw "Disk Space" settings. Without thinking I selected --> O ... Delete messages more than [ xxx ] [ ^v ] days old and I changed the number to... [ 90 ] days old. Like an idiot, I for some reason thought I was dealing with messages in "Trash"... go figure. So of course I then noticed in my email Accounts... all messages older than 90 days were removed from all of my folders I had set-up. Many of the folders are now blank, empty of emails that I had moved into the separate folders set-up for different information. I've explored tons of solution responses in "Support" but haven't found a solution to my problem. I really need my older emails back... please help! , Ron.
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Thunderbird has no backup, providing only the trash folder. You might contact your email provider to see if archives are available.
Well, now I'm confused. Having scoured the Support Forums, I read a response saying... ... [ "When a message is deleted, it is still in the mbox file but marked to not display." ] This got me to assume that the messages deleted by the [ Disk Space ] settings, because they're past the ' # of days old ', could be retrieved somehow thru the mbox file. This must mean that the deleted messages are only viewable but not retrievable in mbox file? Is that the correct understanding?
That is true. Not easy, but doable. I should have mentioned that. This article gives details: https://kb.mozillazine.org/Undelete_a_message
OK. I'll take a look if doable for me. Thanks.
You also can download the "Undelete" add-on from the developer's webpage https://www.ggbs.de/extensions/Undelete.html who is a very active member in the German Thunderbird forum
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Thanks for the alternate help info. I'll look into it for help.