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Lost messages after renaming folders

Jussi Tranesjö
Jussi Tranesjö
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I had a folder called ÖgOF with a subfolder BirdLife. I renamed the folder to BirdLife-ÖgOF. After that a lot of problems occurred, e.g. - some of the other folders lost all messages - messages coluld not be moved from Inbox to some folders

Is it possible to restore the lost messages?

I had a folder called ÖgOF with a subfolder BirdLife. I renamed the folder to BirdLife-ÖgOF. After that a lot of problems occurred, e.g. - some of the other folders lost all messages - messages coluld not be moved from Inbox to some folders Is it possible to restore the lost messages?

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Mapenzi
Mapenzi
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R-click on the folder BirdLife-ÖgOF > Properties > General Info > Location >> this will give you the information whether this is a IMAP or POP folder and where in the profile it is located (and the path to it if POP). Open the Thunderbird profile folder https://mzl.la/2cYKHaB and navigate to a BirdLife-ÖgOF.sbd folder. Verify if there is also a BirdLife-ÖgOF file without any extension in the same location. Open the BirdLife-ÖgOF.sbd folder and show us a screen shot of its contents.

I cannot give more precise directives to find the BirdLife-ÖgOF.sbd folder in the profile folder since you did not give precise information.

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Jussi Tranesjö
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I'm sorry but your reply is too complicated for me to understand. Can I just uninstall and then re-install Thunderbird and hope to be able to recover at least some of the data?

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Uliza swali

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