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After rebuilding database and index 18 months of messages are missing

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Yesterday and today, the same emails kept downloading every time I asked for new messages. As some have suggested, I deleted the global-messages-db.sqlite file and restarted Thunderbird. Only messages before 3-27-2023 appeared. If I fetched messages from the server, it brought in only a few of yesterday's messages. After rebooting, it would download today's messages, but all those before 8/2/24 and 3-27-23 are missing. How can I recover them?

Windows 10, Thinkpad, Thunderbird 128.0.1esr (32-bit) 

James Cooper
Yesterday and today, the same emails kept downloading every time I asked for new messages. As some have suggested, I deleted the global-messages-db.sqlite file and restarted Thunderbird. Only messages before 3-27-2023 appeared. If I fetched messages from the server, it brought in only a few of yesterday's messages. After rebooting, it would download today's messages, but all those before 8/2/24 and 3-27-23 are missing. How can I recover them? Windows 10, Thinkpad, Thunderbird 128.0.1esr (32-bit) James Cooper
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