Thunderbird - restored local folders not showing
Tom P
crash and reinstall.
I have copied the backup files of the previous TB installation into
the new TB installation. The e-mail and news accounts are working fine,
but the local folders (sent messages and some others) are not showing
any contents, even though when I look at the individual files with text
editor I can see that the data is there.
I also notice that the retention policy of the folders has changed to
"delete more than 60 days old". Where did that come from?
I have changed the policy to "don't delete", but the mails are still
not visible.
Suggestions how to recover these folders much appreciated.
T.
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
> I had to reinstall Thunderbird on a WinXP machine following a Windows
> crash and reinstall.
> I have copied the backup files of the previous TB installation into the
> new TB installation. The e-mail and news accounts are working fine, but
> the local folders (sent messages and some others) are not showing any
> contents, even though when I look at the individual files with text
> editor I can see that the data is there.
close TB, then make a backup of the files. Then delete
all the *.msf files. Restart TB. Did that work?
> I also notice that the retention policy of the folders has changed to
> "delete more than 60 days old". Where did that come from?
> I have changed the policy to "don't delete", but the mails are still
> not visible.
> Suggestions how to recover these folders much appreciated.
>
> T.
looks like you're in trouble now. I'm not sure but the
messages may have been deleted permanently. Then
again, there might be something you can do. Whatever
you do, DO NOT COMPACT THE FOLDERS!!!! Otherwise,
you're really screwed. Close TB. Open those files in
a texted based editor. Copy everything in that file,
and paste it into a blank text document. Save it as a
text file, and give it any name you want, as long as
there's no .txt extension. Place the file in Local
Directory. Reopen TB. Did this work?
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Tom P
> Tom P wrote:
>> I had to reinstall Thunderbird on a WinXP machine following a Windows
>> crash and reinstall.
>> I have copied the backup files of the previous TB installation into
>> the new TB installation. The e-mail and news accounts are working
>> fine, but the local folders (sent messages and some others) are not
>> showing any contents, even though when I look at the individual files
>> with text editor I can see that the data is there.
>
> close TB, then make a backup of the files. Then delete all the *.msf
> files. Restart TB. Did that work?
>
Hi Peter,
thanks yes that did work at least for some of them. I'm not sure how
but it seems that the others must have already gotten a 60-day retention
policy from one of my mail accounts.
>> I also notice that the retention policy of the folders has changed to
>> "delete more than 60 days old". Where did that come from?
>> I have changed the policy to "don't delete", but the mails are still
>> not visible.
>> Suggestions how to recover these folders much appreciated.
>>
>> T.
>
> looks like you're in trouble now. I'm not sure but the messages may have
> been deleted permanently. Then again, there might be something you can
> do. Whatever you do, DO NOT COMPACT THE FOLDERS!!!! Otherwise, you're
> really screwed. Close TB. Open those files in a texted based editor.
> Copy everything in that file, and paste it into a blank text document.
> Save it as a text file, and give it any name you want, as long as
> there's no .txt extension. Place the file in Local Directory. Reopen
> TB. Did this work?
>
Yes it does, in the sense that I can see the messages for a particular
folder all in one blob, some of them a readable text, others are most
probably PDF attachments.
Is there some way to unscramble that? Or inn other words, undo the
"deleted item" flags?
Tom.
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
just do what I said: just copy and paste into another
file, put the file into the same place as the other
file, open TB, and everything should show up
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Is the idea just to change the file creation date? I'll try that but
later, have to go.
T.
Neil
> Is there some way to unscramble that? Or inn other words, undo the
> "deleted item" flags?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Undelete_a_message#Edit_the_X-Mozilla-Status:_header_in_the_mbox_file
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Tom P
> Tom P wrote:
>
>> Is there some way to unscramble that? Or inn other words, undo the
>> "deleted item" flags?
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Undelete_a_message#Edit_the_X-Mozilla-Status:_header_in_the_mbox_file
>
>
T.