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recently re-installed Thunderbird and now can't see my local folders

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I keep important emails in my local folder. Recently I had an issue with Thunderbird and had to re-install it. After that, while all my email accounts were still visible, my local folders do not show. If I use file explorer on my windows pc, I can see the appropriate FCL.sbd file has everything in but the emails and folders don't show in Thunderbird. Please help as these emails are important to me.

I keep important emails in my local folder. Recently I had an issue with Thunderbird and had to re-install it. After that, while all my email accounts were still visible, my local folders do not show. If I use file explorer on my windows pc, I can see the appropriate FCL.sbd file has everything in but the emails and folders don't show in Thunderbird. Please help as these emails are important to me.

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Looks like I've fixed it myself by changing the attributes of the files in the *.sbd folder. I did this in each file 'properties' to uncheck 'hidden'. It seems Thunderbird had changed them to hidden when I reinstalled it, though not sure why it would do this. Of course, to see the files I had to enable the 'profiles' folder (C:\Users\.........\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles) to show hidden files in it's sub-folders. I hope this fix helps others too.