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Hi, I accidentally deleted all my emails on my desktop. I was in Account Settings and pressed the red "Delete" button that appears next to the account name on the screen. I was trying to reset the email account settings but when i pressed delete, the mail account and all my old messages were deleted from my desktop.

I do see a file in the folder in User/appdata/roaming/thunderbird/profiles.../mail/mail.server.co.za that says "Inbox" and I THINK that might be my old emails but I can't seem to get Thunderbird to open the file. I've tried using ImportExportNG but it still won't open that file.

Is there a way to recover my old emails without having to take my computer to a specialist?

Appreciate any help. Hani

Moving from a Win 10 machine with TB ver 102.15.1 (64-bit) (Old I know but I still dislike the "new" interface and it still works) to new machine using Mint 22.3 Cinnamon with TB 140.9 esr (64 bit) - (biting the interface bullet)

Copied over the content of the profile folder to the existing profile folder on the new machine. Mail files are in ImapMail directory and mail functions normally.

All local folders came over but under mail I have 3 directories: Local Folders non networked Local Folders smart mailboxes all the local folders accessible through the old client are located in the non networked... directory

These local folders are not showing through the new client. I see just deleted and outbox, which presumably corresponds to the trqash and unsent messages files in the Local Folders directory on the new machine.

I have a vague memory that about 18 months ago I looked into whether or not I could place the local folders on a network drive, so that they would be on one of my NAS drives that gets backed up automatically but I didn't think that I had done anything about this.

Question therefore: Is this a version issue, an OS issue or something else entirely causing me to not see the local folder content in the Mint client? & How do I correct this?

Thanks

I am losing my Mediacom ISP account (which I have had for 20 years) at the end of this month. I have used Mediacoms web mail server all this time and want to keep many emails and addresses that are on their server. I was told that Thunderbird would allow me to transfer/copy these messages to my computer and retain them there in Thunderbird after I no longer have access to Mediacoms server. I have installed Thunderbird 3 times and spent 2-3 days with help from this forum trying to gt it to work properly but have not succeeded. I have a windows 10 HP laptop and am not completely computer literate so I don't believe I will solve this by myself. I even loaded up an old windows 7 computer which I did with ver 15. but that didn't work either. THe one difference I did notice is that the Tbird auto installation on my Win 10 machine selects POP and on the Win 7 machine it selects IMAP. Mediacom is uses IMAP