If you right-click the account in the folder pane, Subscribe, click Refresh, do the missing folders appear to check (subscribe)?

sfhowes said

If you right-click the account in the folder pane, Subscribe, click Refresh, do the missing folders appear to check (subscribe)?

Thanks so much! I've no idea why this happened - but this fix worked perfectly. Thanks again!!! Dave

i have a similar problem having lost half my folders after deleting and restoring the main account. How can I recover these folders together with their email contents?

If you right-click the account in the folder pane, Subscribe, click Refresh, do the missing folders appear to check (subscribe)?

Experiencing the same issue, however, after right-clicking the account in the folder pane, I do not receive any option for subscribe? Using Thunderbird 69..

TBro said

Experiencing the same issue, however, after right-clicking the account in the folder pane, I do not receive any option for subscribe? Using Thunderbird 69..

Subscribe is only an option for IMAP accounts. POP only downloads the Inbox. Check Server Settings/Server Type in Tools/Account Settings.

Hello, I have a similar problem which just poped up. Non IMPA folders are missing. My non-expert view is that they dont seem to be read by Thunderbird. I provide a picture of "Local folders" as seen in the Thunderbird folder pane and another picture of the "Local Folders" folder view in the Profiles folder tree as seen by the Explorer App in Win10. In the later I marked the folders which are present within Thunderbird i.e. plenty are not shown. Any suggestions?

Cheers /Krister

I have the same problem. I followed the advice above: right-click on the account, click Subscribe... then scroll through the list of folders and check the ones I want to re-subscribe to (why and how did they get unsubscribed?) then click the Subscribe button, then click OK. I see the folders briefly flash in the folder view, then go away. When I close the app and then re-open it, I see all the folders appear, then go away.

Do I need to remove the account and then add it again? Hopefully not.

Mik Muller said

I have the same problem. I followed the advice above: right-click on the account, click Subscribe... then scroll through the list of folders and check the ones I want to re-subscribe to (why and how did they get unsubscribed?) then click the Subscribe button, then click OK. I see the folders briefly flash in the folder view, then go away. When I close the app and then re-open it, I see all the folders appear, then go away. Do I need to remove the account and then add it again? Hopefully not.

If you access the account through webmail, do these folders appear and contain readable messages? In the Subscribe window, click Refresh before you check off the folders, as this should display the current IMAP folder structure.

Yes, the emails are readable, though oddly enough nothing in those folders can be found by search in the webmail interface. We're using SmarterMail for the mail server.

I am the admin of the email server so I just went into the admin interface and initiated a re-index of my account. Let's see what happens.

krister.ripstrand said

Hello, I have a similar problem which just poped up. Non IMPA folders are missing. My non-expert view is that they dont seem to be read by Thunderbird. I provide a picture of "Local folders" as seen in the Thunderbird folder pane and another picture of the "Local Folders" folder view in the Profiles folder tree as seen by the Explorer App in Win10. In the later I marked the folders which are present within Thunderbird i.e. plenty are not shown. Any suggestions? Cheers /Krister

Hi again, any ideas about this? Observe these are local folders not visible in Thunderbird but present in the Explorer viewer. See provided pictures. They are not visible via any web mail. Cheers /Krister

krister.ripstrand said

krister.ripstrand said

Hello, I have a similar problem which just poped up. Non IMPA folders are missing. My non-expert view is that they dont seem to be read by Thunderbird. I provide a picture of "Local folders" as seen in the Thunderbird folder pane and another picture of the "Local Folders" folder view in the Profiles folder tree as seen by the Explorer App in Win10. In the later I marked the folders which are present within Thunderbird i.e. plenty are not shown. Any suggestions? Cheers /Krister

Hi again, any ideas about this? Observe these are local folders not visible in Thunderbird but present in the Explorer viewer. See provided pictures. They are not visible via any web mail. Cheers /Krister

I really need some feedback on this problem. For me there is a lot of important information i cant access now. Again its my "Local Folders" not appear in the Thunderbird UI but they are present in the Windows 10 Explorer view. Please, any ideas?

Can't remember exactly how I fixed this problem, but I suggest you do the following, if you haven't done so already. Close and restart Thunderbird. Restart your computer. Be sure you expand all folders. Sometimes, missing folders are compacted under another folder and so are not immediately visible. Hope this helps.