Restore lost email folders & subfolders
Hi, About a week ago I tried to access my email in Thunderbird and got no result. After doing some research I decided to follow some advice to delete my 2 Thunderbird accounts and then recreate them as 2 new accounts. I then discovered that many of my saved email folders and subfolders were missing. Is there some way to restore these folders & subfolders? Also, is there some way the restore a folder and all of its subfolder at once rather than having to restore each subfolder individually before restoring the main folder?
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If the accounts were POP accounts, you may have deleted the messages permanently. You need to provide more info on the account details.
Hi David, they are POP accounts but I can see many of the emails in my Thunderbird Inbox. I can also see most of the missing emails in pop.gmail-1.com. My problem is restoring the missing emails in Thunderbird, specifically so that I can restore a folder and all of its subfolder at once rather than having to restore each subfolder individually before restoring the main folder
Please post screenshot of the pop.gmail-1.com folder. I presume this is one of the deleted accounts?
Please post screenshot of the pop.gmail-1.com folder. I presume this is one of the deleted accounts?
OK, we're lacking a few pieces of info. I presume that pop.gmail.com is the actual account? Not knowing your account structure, my idea would be to - exit thunderbird and create backup of profile - just in case something goes wrong. - now, in the profile, COPY (not move) the complete set of folders and paste into the desired account folder. - then start thunderbird and assess status.
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