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Thunderbird ask to compress our emails to save space. Now I cannot access those old emails. Is there a way to still access them?

Thunderbird ask to compress our emails to save space. Now I cannot access those old emails. Is there a way to still access them?

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Rick
Rick
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Compacting, not compressing, removes messages from non-trash folders that were marked for deletion. Those messages will be in your trash folder as long as you let them stay there.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders

Or have you seen evidence that messages not marked for deletion have been removed?