Hello, sorry to hear about your problem.

Could you have a look at the Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer support article first, especially the Manually moving files section? That should lead you to restoring the recovered files to your new laptop and if not, we can help you further.

I saw that, I am worried that it will overwrite the emails that I received this week? If so is there anyway to make the recovered emails to append the current email or show up in another folder?

Something like this: Inbox Sent Drafts Recovered emails

Or possible in a dummy email account?

Good question. I understand you continued to use Thunderbird using a new profile, and now want those recently added sent and received messages to merge with your old profile (or the other way around)?

Now that you may be a little familiar with how and where the messages are stored after reading the Moving... and Profiles article referred to above and even mention a dummy account, it shouldn’t be hard to accomplish this. Note however that you will do this at your own risk, but as long as you have backups, you can always restore a previous state.

Assuming your new profile and messages/settings are not as extensive as those on your older computer, you could try the following, which is probably the easiest way (again, at your own risk). Note that I’ve assumed you are using POP mail and there is only one profile both in the new and the old setup, but the idea is just to move the smallest part somewhere it can easily be copied and moved to the largest.

1. Create 2 subfolders in your current Inbox (right-click on Inbox and choose New folder), e.g. In-old and Out-old. 2. Move/drag all your recent / newly received and sent messages there accordingly, so there is nothing left in the regular Inbox and Sent folders. 3. Exit Thunderbird, back up the entire (current) profile folder (e.g. called 1b3d5f7h.default) and remove it from the Profiles folder. Do not leave it there and copy other things over, just make sure it’s somewhere else. Also back up the profiles.ini file that resides below that folder. It contains the location of your profile(s) and is likely to be different from the one you always used, as explained in the support articles.

When viewing the files in the Mail\<your email server name>\ folder for the newer profile you just backed up, you should see a subfolder called Inbox.sbd that contains 4 files called In-old, In-old.msf, Out-old and Out-old.msf or whatever you named them.

4. Restore a copy of the full profile folder and the profiles.ini below the Profiles folder from you old computer’s backup to the appropriate locations. 5. Copy the Inbox.sbd folder including its 4 files mentioned above to the restored Mail\<your email server name>\ folder. 6. Start Thunderbird.

The 2 subfolders should now appear in the familiar content from before the crash. If you are sure everything works as it should, you can move their content to the regular Inbox and Sent folders and remove the 2 subfolders afterwards. It may also be wise to check if the old restored profile is working fine before adding the 2 subfolders and starting Thunderbird (though it would do no harm), but since the computer has crashed, you might want to check TB for proper functioning first. Possibly, TB needs to do some cleanup or re-indexing as a result of the crash that may need a litle time. Finally, you could do some cleanup by removing messages if needed, emptying the Trash, and compact the folders as a last step (File - Compact folders) so that the Inbox and Sent files are rewritten in a more logical way to speed things up.