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Archived more than 2000 emails... How to recover?

Thunderbird Troubleshooting
Wayne Mery replied 3 years ago
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Hey there!

Using Thunderbird to backup my emails. I archived all my emails via select all and pressing "A" to archive.

I referred to this page (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/archived-messages) and didn't clearly see the warning stating you should "not select more than 2,000 messages at a time". That being said, the first 3-5 thousand emails were properly archived (I setup archive folders into Month + Year format) while the remaining 10-15 thousand emails do not appear in the corresponding archive folders. How can I recover these emails?

I've tried looking through the Thunderbird support forum, also Googling in general, and haven't been successful in locating a solution. Please let me know if you've ran into this issue, a similar issue, or were able to successfully recover archived emails that are not appearing in their corresponding archive folder. Thanks in advance!

Hey there! Using Thunderbird to backup my emails. I archived all my emails via select all and pressing "A" to archive. I referred to this page (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/archived-messages) and didn't clearly see the warning stating you should "not select more than 2,000 messages at a time". That being said, the first 3-5 thousand emails were properly archived (I setup archive folders into Month + Year format) while the remaining 10-15 thousand emails do not appear in the corresponding archive folders. How can I recover these emails? I've tried looking through the Thunderbird support forum, also Googling in general, and haven't been successful in locating a solution. Please let me know if you've ran into this issue, a similar issue, or were able to successfully recover archived emails that are not appearing in their corresponding archive folder. Thanks in advance!

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Wayne Mery
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DOes it help to right+click the folder > properties > repair ?

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