Help, trying to recover my old account.
Old computer crashed and all but burned. The Geek Squad was able to recover most all data off the old hard drive. Down loaded a new Thunderbird to the new computer, so I can get email from old email address. Now I am trying to get my old account data and emails to work. I cannot get the old version up to work where I can check old emails... Note I have another email account that is a gmail acccont that is not tied to Thurderbird.
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If you describe what you've salvaged, we may be able to assist in recovering to Thunderbird. If you have the old profile or pieces of it, seeing screenshots will help.
Ok, wrong folder. The profile folder would have been at c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\<profilefolder> and the name of the profile itself would be at c\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles.ini - replace the <yourid> with yours
"If you do a search in the c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles folder, you may find abook.sqlite and history.sqlite. These are the technical filenames of the addresssbook and the collected addressbook. You can import them with tools>import>importfromafile. This sometimes happens, that thunderbird creates a new profile and some content is left behind. No, this does not happen to everyone and is likely a glitch wherein an update was interrupted by another program, such as an antivirus product."
This might help. search for "abook.sqlite". Found it in a file, C:/windows.old. look for last oldest.
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