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In trying to remove a duplicate email account, I removed both accounts (duplicate and original). Is there a way to restore the removed emails?

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RAWmac
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My email account was showing up as a duplicate and I used the "remove account" feature to eliminate the duplicate, but the feature deleted both versions of the account, thus all my saved emails disappeared. Is there a way to restore them?

My email account was showing up as a duplicate and I used the "remove account" feature to eliminate the duplicate, but the feature deleted both versions of the account, thus all my saved emails disappeared. Is there a way to restore them?

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Wayne Mery
Wayne Mery
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Add one back

christ1
christ1
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Recover_Deleted_Account

RAWmac
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I did add it back - but the stores emails / folders didn’t reappear. I assume they’re still on my hard drive but I don’t know how to tell the email client to go find those stored emails.