I use POP3 My laptop completely seized (I had no reaction to any key or mouse stroke) and after waiting for several hours (time sometimes cures it) and multiple Ctrl - Alt - Dels I had to force stop it by pushing on the power button until it shut down. (Over the years this has happened a few times but I've never lost anything from Thunderbird before) When I re-started Thunderbird it didn't recognise any of my email profiles. (I have 3 on the same thunderbird) I tried installing the profiles on another laptop with a fresh install of Thunderbird but while it was able to search for and find my e-mail address. It could not find any of my other folders. As of now I've only got the emails that were left in my inbox at the time of the crash and have lost or at least can't currently access any of the other folders. What can I do to recover the folders and the emails within them?

Many thanks in advance and apologies if Accessibility is not the correct topic. I couldn't see any other topic that fit and as I have no idea what Accessibility refers to I took a punt and tried that.