Urgent - Lost messages in Inbox - how can I get them back from a backup?
I have latest version (64 bit) of Thunderbird (automatic updates) on a Windows 10 machine. A little while ago, I found that many of my messages in my Inbox from earlier … (read more)
I have latest version (64 bit) of Thunderbird (automatic updates) on a Windows 10 machine.
A little while ago, I found that many of my messages in my Inbox from earlier this month were showing Gobbledygook. Also the number of messages were only about a quarter of what should be in the Inbox. So I clicked on Properties of the Inbox - the number of messages that were shown in the Repair Window was about right so I clicked on "Repair folder". The repair process seems to have deleted all of the other messages and left my Inbox with just a quarter of what should be there. None of the missing messages are in the Deleted box or the Archives.
So does anyone have a way of getting these deleted messages back?
If not, I do a regular back-up of my Thunderbird profile. How can I go about getting just my Inbox back from the backup. I have years of Archives in my set-up (20GB+). And I am afraid that given what has happened today, I might lose those as well if I restore my whole profile. Ideally, I would like to restore just my back-up Inbox to a second Inbox (Inbox-1) and then just migrate across the missing messages. What files should I copy across from my backup?
The reason I have put urgent in the subject line is that I am in hte middle of some complex issues that require the exchange of a lot of emails and I need to look back at emails that are now missing.