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Zip File Emails

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omaani81
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I dumped a zip file from a thumb drive to Thunderbird and it appears all the emails have downloaded but while I logged in with one gmail account those current emails on the gmail account are there 577 of them but the 17,763 emails are showing in gray next to the 577 but I cannot access those? How can I access those emails? These are old emails where I no longer have accounts for. Thanks

I dumped a zip file from a thumb drive to Thunderbird and it appears all the emails have downloaded but while I logged in with one gmail account those current emails on the gmail account are there 577 of them but the 17,763 emails are showing in gray next to the 577 but I cannot access those? How can I access those emails? These are old emails where I no longer have accounts for. Thanks

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Matt
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omaani81 said
I dumped a zip file from a thumb drive to Thunderbird

That leaves me to ask, did you unzip the file and place the contents into Thunderbird. Grey italics usually means read only, so perhaps I am thinking you dumped the wrong thing in the wrong place. Windows does a pretty good job of pretending a zip file is a normal folder, but it is not. My guess is the code that reads the folder contents to build the lists can read inside the zip by virtue of the windows API, but the code that reads the message body can not.

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