Thunderbird Help

Dagney · 01-09-2005, 06:55 PM

I'm not sure who, if anyone here has made the jump from anything to Thunderbird...but tonight, I had a system dump that corrupted my folder files, and I've lost ALL of my stored mail and addresses.

Does anyone know how to recover that?

Thanks.

Kellie

Undertoad · 01-09-2005, 07:07 PM

If you have backups, this directory contains all of your mail and profiles:

C:\Documents and Settings\kellie\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles

(where "kellie" is whatever you log in as)

Before proceeding, save everything in that directory to a backup directory. Somewhere in there is a folder "Mail", and then a folder according to your mail server name, and that's where all the mail is saved. You can try to rebuild individual mailbox indexes by deleting files with a ".msf" extension.

Also, you may want to just reboot first if you haven't. Sometimes T-bird will leave a copy of itself running, which confuses the second copy of it when it goes to read everything.

01-09-2005, 06:55 PM	#1
Dagney The Prodigal Brat Returneth Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: North Cackalacky Posts: 1,107	Thunderbird Help I'm not sure who, if anyone here has made the jump from anything to Thunderbird...but tonight, I had a system dump that corrupted my folder files, and I've lost ALL of my stored mail and addresses. Does anyone know how to recover that? Thanks. Kellie __________________ The Constitution gives every American the right to make a total fool out of himself. But that doesn't mean you need to.

01-09-2005, 07:07 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	If you have backups, this directory contains all of your mail and profiles: C:\Documents and Settings\kellie\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles (where "kellie" is whatever you log in as) Before proceeding, save everything in that directory to a backup directory. Somewhere in there is a folder "Mail", and then a folder according to your mail server name, and that's where all the mail is saved. You can try to rebuild individual mailbox indexes by deleting files with a ".msf" extension. Also, you may want to just reboot first if you haven't. Sometimes T-bird will leave a copy of itself running, which confuses the second copy of it when it goes to read everything.

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