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How do I recover my old email files on reinstall

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Don Farr
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I reinstalled my pop3 Thunderbird and my old profile was gone. I reinstalled it, but it does not have all the filed emails from the last two decades. How can I recover them?

I reinstalled my pop3 Thunderbird and my old profile was gone. I reinstalled it, but it does not have all the filed emails from the last two decades. How can I recover them?

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I found that my profile and emails were not set up in the Mozilla default directory - but on a different hard drive. All is well!

don

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Don Farr
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I found that my profile and emails were not set up in the Mozilla default directory - but on a different hard drive. All is well!

don

bak34470
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I have a similiar problem. Thunderbird created a new profile and wont accept the old profile. It gives me a message: '1v1jrkru.default is not suitable for mesage storage. Please choose another directory.' How can I move the files from the original profile and insert them in the new profile?