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I had years of emails from an old hotmail email address in Thunderbird.
I'd changed the password and lost it, so for 2 yrs it didn't update in Thunderbird.
I found the password and logged in via web browser, which basically reactivated the email - apparently Microsoft purged everything since it was inactive >1 yr.
Which would be fine, it's a tertiary email, but when I opened Thunderbird and put in the new password, it synced with the server, and all the emails that were saved disappeared.
Is there any way to recover them? I tried to read how to find the files, but can't locate them.
What OS are you using – adampski – 2016-09-24T22:59:48.667
Windows 7. Thunderbird v 45.3.0 – DoctorWhom – 2016-09-25T03:00:07.783
Perhaps give this a read: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1009228 I'd be very interested to hear the result. If a success I can help write up an answer. However don't get too excited as this answer suggests there's little hope: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1049848#answer-698156
– adampski – 2016-09-25T09:45:54.247If you haven't allowed the mailbox files to compact yet, there's a decent chance they still exist in those files, but I'm not sure there is a simple method to get them back. I accidentally deleted all the files in one mailbox. As I recall, I had to open the file in an editor, determine what status code to look for (eg, 0009 I think) and then do a Replace All back to 0001 (I think). Then start Thunderbird and re-delete the few I didn't really need since the last compact had run. I had found all the info I needed on Mozilla Thunderbird forums via Google. – topshot – 2016-09-26T19:18:13.117