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recover gmail msgs?

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linusr
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Hi,here's your dumb/oops question for the day. I accidentally deleted all gmail from my thunderbird (w11p, v 115.7.0). These were in my "all mail" location. Looking online, it appears that I had set gmail on web to not keep anything there (gmail's own server), once I delete from t-bird, it appears all gone, permanently. I looked in t-bird trash, and all are gone there. -I did look at 2 pgs of "answers" to this issue here at moz sppt, 1 said "choose 'subscribe' . the "all mail folder was already subscribed. Do I unclick that? Would that (unsubscribe "all mail") keep the "all mail" stuff still on the gmail server? Other workarounds? Thank you.

P.S.: I am aware that for "security purposes" google keeps ALL. I not only do not know how to access that world, I also don't have any such security ok, nor wish to have.

Hi,here's your dumb/oops question for the day. I accidentally deleted all gmail from my thunderbird (w11p, v 115.7.0). These were in my "all mail" location. Looking online, it appears that I had set gmail on web to not keep anything there (gmail's own server), once I delete from t-bird, it appears all gone, permanently. I looked in t-bird trash, and all are gone there. -I did look at 2 pgs of "answers" to this issue here at moz sppt, 1 said "choose 'subscribe' . the "all mail folder was already subscribed. Do I unclick that? Would that (unsubscribe "all mail") keep the "all mail" stuff still on the gmail server? Other workarounds? Thank you. P.S.: I am aware that for "security purposes" google keeps ALL. I not only do not know how to access that world, I also don't have any such security ok, nor wish to have.

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david
david
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If any mail is retained, you will find it on the Gmail server online. Thunderbird does not do backups. The Allmail folder is a regular source of confusion, and I generally advise to just unsubscribe from it. I would check the online trash folder as a possibility.