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I am trying to restore a backed up profile for use in thunderbird.

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I was attempting to use Thunderbird Restore Tool to merge multiple Thunderbird profiles. Before I started, I copied the existing Thunderbird profile to a safe location where it has remained undisturbed. The Thunderbird Restore Tool did not produce the desired results, but that is a story for another day. I tried copying the saved profile back to C:\User\Tom Hayden\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles. I then started Thunderbird. It returned something very close to "Your profile file is inaccessible or corrupted". After some research, I edited the profiles.ini to point to the old profile file. Thunderbird would not start. I tried multiple iterations of thunderbird - p to run the profile manager. I was, eventually, able to get thunderbird to start and read the most recent e-mails from the server. However, it would not load any of the old e-mails from the old profile. I went to the profile thunderbird is currently using. Under ...\thunderbird\profile\pd785tbj.Default_User\Mail I found Local Folders-1 and pop3.airmail.net. Under pop3.airmail.net I can see the directory structure I used for my old e-mail. Everything appears to be present and in place. No matter what I do, Thunderbird will not read/load those e-mails. There is also an ImapMail directory with mail.airmail.net. Under it is a directory structure that appears to be what is actually showing up in Thunderbird. How do I restore/reload/recover/whatever the old e-mails in pop3.airmail.net? Please make your answer as explicit as possible.

I was attempting to use Thunderbird Restore Tool to merge multiple Thunderbird profiles. Before I started, I copied the existing Thunderbird profile to a safe location where it has remained undisturbed. The Thunderbird Restore Tool did not produce the desired results, but that is a story for another day. I tried copying the saved profile back to C:\User\Tom Hayden\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles. I then started Thunderbird. It returned something very close to "Your profile file is inaccessible or corrupted". After some research, I edited the profiles.ini to point to the old profile file. Thunderbird would not start. I tried multiple iterations of thunderbird - p to run the profile manager. I was, eventually, able to get thunderbird to start and read the most recent e-mails from the server. However, it would not load any of the old e-mails from the old profile. I went to the profile thunderbird is currently using. Under ...\thunderbird\profile\pd785tbj.Default_User\Mail I found Local Folders-1 and pop3.airmail.net. Under pop3.airmail.net I can see the directory structure I used for my old e-mail. Everything appears to be present and in place. No matter what I do, Thunderbird will not read/load those e-mails. There is also an ImapMail directory with mail.airmail.net. Under it is a directory structure that appears to be what is actually showing up in Thunderbird. How do I restore/reload/recover/whatever the old e-mails in pop3.airmail.net? Please make your answer as explicit as possible.

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I think that before you began all those manipulations you used a POP account for your airmail.net address. In your actual Thunderbird installation you have created an IMAP account for this same address which downloaded only messages still being stored on the server Inbox. I advise to create a POP account for this address. Then copy the pop3.airmail.net account folder from \thunderbird\profile\pd785tbj.Default_User\Mail In Thunderbird go to Help > Troubleshooting information > Profile Folder > Open Folder... and exit Thunderbird. In the profile folder go to Mail, delete the newly created pop3.airmail.net folder and paste the copy in Mail. Restart thunderbird.

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This, mostly, solved the problem. I was a little confused because you said "Then copy the pop3.airmail.net account folder from \thunderbird\profile\pd785tbj.Default_User\Mail", but it did not say where to copy it to. I finally realized you meant make a copy of it so I could use it later. I am not sure what the "in Thunderbird go to Help > Troubleshooting information > Profile Folder > Open Folder... and exit Thunderbird" was for, it did not seem to do anything. I created a new account using POP, copied the existing pop3.airmail.net to a back up location just to be safe and then replaced it with the copy of pop3.airmail.net that came from \thunderbird\profile\pd785tbj.Default_User\Mail. When I restarted Thunderbird all the mail boxes and e-mails were there. Some of the filters did not work, but I was able to fix them easily enough. Your initial point was correct, I made an IMAP instead of a POP account. If I had made a POP account in the first place it would have been a simple case of copying the old pop3.airmail.net over the new one. Thanks for your help.

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