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Why is my Drafts folder suddenly empty this morning?

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I opened Thunderbird this morning and my Drafts folder is empty. Not only that but when I am composing an email and hit Save, which is setup to save to Drafts folder, I get a little popup that says Copying message to drafts folder. I open Drafts folder and it is not there. However, this new message that I tried to safe to Drafts shows up in a folder named All Mail. I try to drag it to Drafts but it does not copy or move to Drafts. I created a new folder and named it Drafts 2 then copied this test message to Drafts 2. But where are my original Drafts folder contents> I have changed absolutely nothing in Thunderbird. No settings changes, no nothing. What the heck? I had important things in my Drafts folder and now they are gone.

Oh, this happens on my Primary Gmail account. I open Gmail in my browser, check Drafts and it's empty too.

I check my ISP furnished POP3 account and it has a message in Drafts. I create a new message, save it to drafts in this POP3 account and Thunderbird147 puts it there.

I opened Thunderbird this morning and my Drafts folder is empty. Not only that but when I am composing an email and hit Save, which is setup to save to Drafts folder, I get a little popup that says Copying message to drafts folder. I open Drafts folder and it is not there. However, this new message that I tried to safe to Drafts shows up in a folder named All Mail. I try to drag it to Drafts but it does not copy or move to Drafts. I created a new folder and named it Drafts 2 then copied this test message to Drafts 2. But where are my original Drafts folder contents> I have changed absolutely nothing in Thunderbird. No settings changes, no nothing. What the heck? I had important things in my Drafts folder and now they are gone. Oh, this happens on my Primary Gmail account. I open Gmail in my browser, check Drafts and it's empty too. I check my ISP furnished POP3 account and it has a message in Drafts. I create a new message, save it to drafts in this POP3 account and Thunderbird147 puts it there.

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