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November 8th, 2010, 09:46 PM
#1
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November 9th, 2010, 12:05 AM
#2
I'm going to bed now as it is very late where I live. I will check back here in the morning to see if anyone has any ideas.
Goodnight,
Sheila
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November 9th, 2010, 10:58 AM
#3
OK, here is what I have been thinking about. I am thinking that my email messages that was in Thunderbird's Inbox has to be somewhere on my computer. In another thread Train posted me a link to a program called "Search Anything" & I installed that to use and try to find my contact book in Vista. I was thinking about trying to use this program to look for those lost email messages. But I need to know what extension that Thunderbird's email messages has. I can't look for the messages if I don't know Thunderbird's email extension. Would the extension be .eml?
Thanks,
Sheila
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November 9th, 2010, 01:05 PM
#4
Thunderbrid Profile info:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_fo...Thunderbird%29
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
E-Mail files:
Thunderbird stores messages in the Profile Folder, in the Mail and (if you use IMAP) ImapMail folders. Each mail folder (Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files — one with no extension (e.g. INBOX), which is the mail file itself (in "mbox" format), and one with an .msf extension (e.g. INBOX.msf), which is the index (Mail Summary File) to the mail file.
http://askville.amazon.com/location-...questId=460332
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November 9th, 2010, 04:30 PM
#5
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November 9th, 2010, 05:03 PM
#6
Is it possible that you have ThunderChicken set to only show unread e-mails, or possibly only e-mails new that XX days?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...AAAKoEBU_Qo1Ay
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November 9th, 2010, 07:12 PM
#7
jdc2000: I checked out your search results and using the results on "How to display only unread messages" I used that information to do just the opposite. I followed all the directions and made sure that the "View" was set to "Show all messages". Those old messages just did not show up. I finally did a search with the term, "Disappearing messages in Thunderbird" and found the site below.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail
I tried everything it suggested, including "rebuilding" the Inbox folder in case it was corrupt--but nothing helped to recover those messages.
I have read hours and hours of articles until my eyes are pure bleary from reading--I've got to take a break from this problem. For a while I will just use Windows Live Mail and one day I will go back trying to solve this problem. Maybe something will come along that shows me what to do. I already have joined that forum that you sent me to, Askville, and posted the problem there too. Maybe someone there will email me the solution to the problem. If I ever find the solution, I will post back here. So I am going to mark this thread as solved because I have gone as far as I can right now and I am just plain tired of trying to find the answer. There has to be more to life than staying on a computer every day, all day long, trying to fix something. It's not like I don't have an email program at all to fall back on.
Thanks for all your help,
Sheila
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November 5th, 2013, 11:10 PM
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For bijou
Bijou: I got an email message stating you had replied to this old thread, but every time I clicked on the link in my email program, it took me here but no thread from you was found.
In case you are reading this, I no longer use Thunderbird. I got a new computer since this thread was created with Windows 7 & use the email program that comes with it--and I really like it. But thanks for trying to answer my question.
Sheila
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November 6th, 2013, 07:30 AM
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Bijou is no longer a member of VDR Sheila. This member was a spammer and I banned him/her.
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November 6th, 2013, 11:15 PM
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Thanks!
photolady: Thanks for answering as I was really puzzled--and thanks also for protecting me!
Sheila
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November 6th, 2013, 11:21 PM
#11
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August 9th, 2014, 10:39 AM
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I had the same thing happen to me - all of 2013 (plus half of 2014) have vanished into thin air - where do I find MozBackUp, cuz I can't seem to resolve it using the info in the standard links. (A heads up, I am not fluent in computer, so things take me a little longer to do, so any detailed instruction/help is deeply appreciated)
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August 9th, 2014, 01:40 PM
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I could not find the link on Firefox's web site but I found it on other sites. According to my "WOT" security program this is a safe web site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mozbackup/
After you install it, just click next on each window that opens up & choose the programs you want backed up. But first make a folder, preferably on different hard drive, labeled something like, "Firefox or Thunderbird backup". Then when you are telling MozBackup to back up your programs, when you get to the part that says "Default" (where you want to back it up), then click on browse and go to the folder where you want your backups to go. After that from then on when you get to the Default when backing up, you don't need to browse any more because you have already made that folder your default. I advise you to put the folder on another hard drive if you have one because if something happens to your computer (C Drive) then all you have to do is re-install Firefox or Thunderbird, & then you restore all your settings from your backups even if you had to re-install your C drive. Hope all this helps.
Sheila
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August 9th, 2014, 04:11 PM
#14
THANK YOU - I will give this a shot. Don't have an alternate hard drive (other than my back-up system) but will try using that - here's fingers crossed.
pat
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August 10th, 2014, 02:42 PM
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Pat: If you don't have another hard drive then I can suggest a cheap alternative. If you have a thumb drive/flash drive, then you can back up your Firefox settings to it each time. It would not even have to be a large data holding thumb drive because after you create a new backup, you can then just delete the previous backup--thus, always having the newest backup if you ever needed it to restore your Firefox settings. Thumb drives are cheap now so it would be a good alternative if you don't have another hard drive.
Hope this helps.
Sheila
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