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I deleted Thunderbird emails by accident

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Sandy
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Hi, I saw the answer in the community for deleted emails. I searched inside the APPDATA folder, in roaming, IMAP, MAIL, Trash. They are all empty or have only a few KB from a few new emails.

The deletion happened when I highlighted all of my inbox emails using Ctrl A and attempted to drag them to a new local folder i had created.

Now both folders are empty.

Is there any possible way to recover them? It was years of emails. I don't need to tell you how important it is that I recover them.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Hi, I saw the answer in the community for deleted emails. I searched inside the APPDATA folder, in roaming, IMAP, MAIL, Trash. They are all empty or have only a few KB from a few new emails. The deletion happened when I highlighted all of my inbox emails using Ctrl A and attempted to drag them to a new local folder i had created. Now both folders are empty. Is there any possible way to recover them? It was years of emails. I don't need to tell you how important it is that I recover them. Thank you in advance for your help.

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Mapenzi
Mapenzi
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Return to your Thunderbird profile folder, open the "Mail" and the "ImapMail" folders and their sub-folders such as "pop.xxx.xx" in Mail or "imap.xxx.xx" in ImapMail to search for any file without extension having sizes of several dozens or hundreds of MB. Also look up the "Local Folders" sub-folder of Mail whether it contains message files of important size. The best would be to show screen shots of the contents of those "pop.xxx.xx" and/or "imap.xxx.xx" account folders you'll find in "Mail", "ImapMail" and "Local Folders". Do you have a backup copy of your Thunderbird profile folder?

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