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Lost local folder still visible in Search

Nils Schwarz
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In transferring my profile from PC to laptop, something went wrong and I lost all of my local folders, with years of emails in them. I have searched all parts of the Thunderbird folder under Roaming, and have been unable to find the folders.

The weird thing is that when I do a search for a particular subject or email that I know was in one of the local folders, the search still gives results showing the email headings. It will, however, not display the results as a list or open any of the emails.

The fact that the folders and emails appear in the search leads me to believe that they are still somewhere on my PC.

Does anyone have any advice on where they might be or how to find them?

In transferring my profile from PC to laptop, something went wrong and I lost all of my local folders, with years of emails in them. I have searched all parts of the Thunderbird folder under Roaming, and have been unable to find the folders. The weird thing is that when I do a search for a particular subject or email that I know was in one of the local folders, the search still gives results showing the email headings. It will, however, not display the results as a list or open any of the emails. The fact that the folders and emails appear in the search leads me to believe that they are still somewhere on my PC. Does anyone have any advice on where they might be or how to find them?

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Mapenzi
Mapenzi
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If your search results cannot be displayed as a list or only an empty list, your search data seem outdated. Open the Thunderbird profile folder as described in this article https://mzl.la/2cYKHaB When the profile folder is displayed quit Thunderbird and delete the global-messages-db.sqlite file. Still in the profile folder go to Mail > Local Folders and make a screenshot of its contents to publish in your next reply. I think that you forgot your Local Folders when migrating from PC to laptop.

Restart TB and wait that TB recreates the deleted file, then repeat the same search as before. Do you still get the same results?

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Nils Schwarz
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Hi Mapenzi

Following what you suggested, results in the search no longer giving the results that it found before. Unfortunately it does nothing to recover the local folders that I lost.

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