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Restoring the Inbox mbox file

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Hello,

My situation is bad as I lost a year worth's emails. Fortunately, as I checked, I found the Inbox files in the profile folder and it has the approximate size of what my emails should be: 5GB.

I have tried restoring the local Thunderbird account with the file but it doesn't seems to work as I can't see any emails in the new folder I created and import the mbox file into.

Can anyone advise what could be possible points of failure that I can try to work around?

Also, if anyone has been able to open and view such a large file on mac, could you please advise how to go about it?

Thank you.

Hello, My situation is bad as I lost a year worth's emails. Fortunately, as I checked, I found the Inbox files in the profile folder and it has the approximate size of what my emails should be: 5GB. I have tried restoring the local Thunderbird account with the file but it doesn't seems to work as I can't see any emails in the new folder I created and import the mbox file into. Can anyone advise what could be possible points of failure that I can try to work around? Also, if anyone has been able to open and view such a large file on mac, could you please advise how to go about it? Thank you.

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christ1
christ1
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My situation is bad as I lost a year worth's emails.

You'd need to explain that in more detail.

Fortunately, as I checked, I found the Inbox files in the profile folder

Inbox files? Do you have multiple Inbox files?

it has the approximate size of what my emails should be: 5GB.

Are you compacting folders on a regular basis, either automatically, or manually?

I have tried restoring the local Thunderbird account with the file

There is no such thing as a Thunderbird account. Therefore, what are you talking about - the built-in 'Local Folders' account? If so, why would 'Local Folders' need to be restored? What exactly did you do?

Also, if anyone has been able to open and view such a large file on mac, could you please advise how to go about it?

Not using a Mac here, so I don't know. Aren't there any decent text editors available for Mac?

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