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I thought I needed to delete account to activate new password and lost ALL my emails and folders! Can these be retrieved???

Cbelle
Cbelle
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I needed to have a new password for my email account and then had problems accessing emails into Thunderbird, so I thought I needed to delete old account and start again. I didnt expect to lose ALL my emails and folders over many years!. Any way of retrieving them?? Is using Timemachine an option?

I needed to have a new password for my email account and then had problems accessing emails into Thunderbird, so I thought I needed to delete old account and start again. I didnt expect to lose ALL my emails and folders over many years!. Any way of retrieving them?? Is using Timemachine an option?

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Wayne Mery
Wayne Mery
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If it was an imap account then you have not lost your mail. Just define the account to Thunderbird again.

user01229325
user01229325
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Deleted the account to change the saved passwords? Pretty drastic move.

Next time try this. https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=19006