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Accidentally hit delete all on Inbox - now TB is fetching mail from server and filling trash folder, wh

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I was switching from Outlook to Thunderbird and not being familiar with the tab layout made a dumb mistake, I thought I was deleting a tab with filtered spam but instead I selected all in my unified inbox and hit send to trash. It dumped about 4000 into trash that were not important but when that was empty it started pulling older email off the IMAP servers and filling the trash up again. I have about 28000 emails (I assume that makes me a hoarder) about 200 of which need to be kept. I took Thunderbird offline, deleted the Windows app, redownloaded and as soon as I added the accounts back in it started deleting again. Is there anyway to stop the delete all inbox transfer or do I just need to go back to Outlook or another email client?

I was switching from Outlook to Thunderbird and not being familiar with the tab layout made a dumb mistake, I thought I was deleting a tab with filtered spam but instead I selected all in my unified inbox and hit send to trash. It dumped about 4000 into trash that were not important but when that was empty it started pulling older email off the IMAP servers and filling the trash up again. I have about 28000 emails (I assume that makes me a hoarder) about 200 of which need to be kept. I took Thunderbird offline, deleted the Windows app, redownloaded and as soon as I added the accounts back in it started deleting again. Is there anyway to stop the delete all inbox transfer or do I just need to go back to Outlook or another email client?

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