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All Email Accounts Gone But Address Book Is Still There

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randy52644
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I opened Thunderbird 45.5.0 running Windows 10 the other day and all of my email accounts are gone. Thunderbird started the wizard asking me to create a new email account. But my address book is still there.

If I look in my default profile path in the Mail folder, all of my old email accounts are there. I've ran Thunderbird - profilemanager and create a new user pointing back to the path where my existing email accounts are. Also searched the Mozilla support pages and have tried several suggestions, none have worked.

Any ideas?

I opened Thunderbird 45.5.0 running Windows 10 the other day and all of my email accounts are gone. Thunderbird started the wizard asking me to create a new email account. But my address book is still there. If I look in my default profile path in the Mail folder, all of my old email accounts are there. I've ran Thunderbird - profilemanager and create a new user pointing back to the path where my existing email accounts are. Also searched the Mozilla support pages and have tried several suggestions, none have worked. Any ideas?

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The best way that I know to deal with this is to create a new Thunderbird Profile in a new folder, and import your data from the old profile.

See: Create a clean new profile in Thunderbird and import your stuff from the old profile

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user1121639
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Zaɓi Mafita

The best way that I know to deal with this is to create a new Thunderbird Profile in a new folder, and import your data from the old profile.

See: Create a clean new profile in Thunderbird and import your stuff from the old profile

user1121639
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Look at this first: Recovering a profile that suddenly disappeared

randy52644
randy52644 Mai mallakar tambaya
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Thanks Bruce. I got the email accounts back by deleting the profile.ini file then renaming prefs-1.js to prefs.js. Then using Thunderbird profilemanager created a new user and pointed the path back to the original profile path with p3dotk2e.default.

Not sure if both actions or one or the other fixed my problem? But at least I have my account back!

user1121639
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That's good. With the new name for the profile (ie. not default), maybe this won't happen again.