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Title: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: Soln on October 18, 2008, 07:01:36 PM Something happened to my mail on Thunderbird (Mac v2.0.0.17) such that the profile was corrupted. After reading a lot of self-repair entries, this problem seems common.
1. I backed up all my old mail, saved separately 2. Then created a new default profile via the profile manager 3. I then bulk copied all my original files except pref.js into the top folder in /Users/me/Thunderbird 4. But nothing appears. So I recreated at least one mail account but again no old folders are being shown Can someone recommend next steps? Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: Trippy on October 18, 2008, 07:37:00 PM Is this POP or IMAP?
Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: Soln on October 18, 2008, 07:55:21 PM I have gmail (POP) and a private mail server (IMAP). Two accounts.
Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: Lantyssa on October 18, 2008, 07:59:29 PM Thunderbird was kind of stupid about it last time I had to do that. I remember having to tweak the .pfs file with the correct paths to get an existing install to see the new directories. It was too long ago to tell you what I did though.
For the IMAP account you should be able to give it your settings and it will be done. Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: schild on October 19, 2008, 12:27:39 AM FEBE (a plugin) worked for me when I had the exact same problem.
Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: Soln on October 19, 2008, 11:20:08 AM thanks but FEBE won't install -- I don't think it works for Thunderbird :( how did you manage it?
Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: schild on October 19, 2008, 11:35:24 AM Oh right, FEBE is firefox, lemme see what the thunderbird one was.
Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: schild on October 19, 2008, 11:35:59 AM Scratch that, whatever it was it's not on my new version because we're on IMAP. Apologies.
Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: Soln on October 19, 2008, 06:34:15 PM partially solved. Gmail is back, IMAP to follow. Just need to confirm all offline is Ok
This is in fact rather complicated to solve. If you are on PC it's easier than Mac. If you have to run SED to change some file headers. Follow these instructions: 1. http://ask.metafilter.com/40173/How-to-recover-lost-email-in-Thunderbird-OSX 2. http://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html 3. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Issues_:_Disappearing_mail Title: Re: Advice plz -- Thunderbird profile/mail recovery Post by: schild on October 19, 2008, 07:48:14 PM OH wao, I missed that you were on a mac. Yea, on a PC you just drag and drop the backup folder and it magically works. My brain hasn't been in the right place this weekend. Apologies.
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