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Uninstalled Thunderbird and Profile (accidentally). Can I recover?

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  • Last reply by MerryMarjie

Sunday morning, bleary eyed, Thunderbird opened differently, couldn't even see the X to close it, everything looked messed up. I decided it would be easier to uninstall 38.2 and reinstall. Unfortunately, using Geek.exe, I also destroyed the Profile. I have used Recuva and another program, read dozens of Mozilla articles, Googled everything but how to wash the cat, but cannot find any of my e-mails from the last two years. I just want to ask, is that all gone forever? Or will a paid software recovery program find it? Plenty of paid programs say they can recover deleted e-mails, but after five days of searching myself, I'm beginning to doubt that.

Any help, even funny comments, would be most welcome.

Thank you.

Windows 10, HP Envy Phoenix, Intel Core 17, Addled Operator

Sunday morning, bleary eyed, Thunderbird opened differently, couldn't even see the X to close it, everything looked messed up. I decided it would be easier to uninstall 38.2 and reinstall. Unfortunately, using Geek.exe, I also destroyed the Profile. I have used Recuva and another program, read dozens of Mozilla articles, Googled everything but how to wash the cat, but cannot find any of my e-mails from the last two years. I just want to ask, is that all gone forever? Or will a paid software recovery program find it? Plenty of paid programs say they can recover deleted e-mails, but after five days of searching myself, I'm beginning to doubt that. Any help, even funny comments, would be most welcome. Thank you. Windows 10, HP Envy Phoenix, Intel Core 17, Addled Operator

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What server are you using? If your settings aren't set to delete messages from the server as soon as they're downloaded, you should be abler to get them.

I am on ATT.net, through Yahoo. I had thought about that but even though I Googled it, I can't understand how two years (or 10) could be downloaded from a server. Are you saying that they would have kept them?

If so, how does one go about effecting a massive dump?