How to recover deleted email account and lost it all in Thunderbird? The problems you are facing while sending your emails and during the process of switching to IMAP. I accidentally deleted the email account. All of my folders in mt email account . So now I have nothing in the folder I found in my profiles. I read on one of the path boards to point to TB. I opened it and it seems that everything is inside.

I do not know how to direct TB to that file to access my folders. I should have backed it up this before, but in my excitement, to make the email work, I made the mistake of backed it up before removing it.

Recovering deleted email accounts

If you have accidentally deleted your mail accounts by clicking on the “Remove Account” button in Thunderbird, it does not mean that your mail has actually been deleted from your computer. This mail is sent to the Mail folder in your profile folder. Must be present in the folder. (It assumes that the account is not using the global inbox, in that case, its mail will be stored in local folders.)

Once you have gone to your profile folder and verified that the mail still exists for the deleted account, then return it to Thunderbird. Before proceeding you may want to make a temporary backup of your profile folder. To recover deleted email account and lost it all in Thunderbird is very simple.

• Start Thunderbird and create a new mail account, using the same email address and server settings that you deleted. You can do this by entering your name, email address and password in the new Accounts Wizard, and pressing Continue. Do not use the “Get a new account” button, because it is just a pitch to sell a new email address.
• This will create a new account directory with a numeric suffix. For example, if your old mail account was pop.gmail.com, it would create a pop-gmail-1.com. To specify the old account directory and restart Thunderbird, use Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Browse in Local Directory.
• Check the inbox folder in the accounts to see if there are messages in it or not. If not, you may have specified the wrong location and then use the browse button.
• Recommended you leave the account directory that you created in a single step – this is due to only a few default files which are created in Thunderbird. However, you can remove it after you exit the Thunderbird if it can be confused later.

If this does not work for any reason, you can import each folder by using the ImportExportTools extension. Each folder is stored as a text file with the names of the folders and there is no file extension (a mbox file) in the directory in the profile of the mail server of the accounts in the profile. For example, if you want to import the Inbox folder for Gmail, you can select “mail\pop.gmail.com\inbox”. File. Ignore the Inbox.msf and Inbox.sbd files.

This article provides step-by-step instructions for importing folders from another profile to a new user, who have not installed any extensions. It assumes that you are using Windows but you should still be able to follow the instructions using a file manager on another operating system. Import/Export Tools extension can also be used to export folders.

Install the Export/Import Tools extension

• Go to the web page and click on the download now button. Choose “save file” and click the OK button to save the file when the popup asks what should Firefox do with that file.
• Start Thunderbird.
• Go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions. Select the icon that looks like a gear (it’s actually a list box)  near the upper part of the window and then “Installs add-on from file”. If you can’t find the gear like the icon you are probably looking on the Get Add-ons pane, not the Extensions pane.
• Browse to where you can download the .xpi file, select it and Open.
• It will then display a “Software Installation” screen with a grayed out “Install” button. After a couple of seconds, it will finish the processing .xpi file and replace that button with a “Install Now” button. Press the button.
• Exit Thunderbird.
• Start your Thunderbird again. You can see It has a Tools -> ImportExportTools -> “Import mbox file” command. Don’t use it yet, just check that it exists.

Your folder is stored in profile as mbox files. These folders are not the names and no file extensions. For example, your Inbox folder is “Inbox”. The file and the posted folder are “sent”. File You can read  safely using a text editor to make sure that this mail message is not included, though it is not user-friendly because it includes a strong message source, which includes all the headers and large blocks, Whenever you have a binary attachment.

If you are using a recent version of Thunderbird, help -> troubleshooting information -> show the folder to open the file manager (Windows Explorer) on your profile.

To recover deleted email account and lost it all in Thunderbird Then visit your profile directory using Windows Explorer. If you are not sure that you’ve got a Thunderbird profile for a prefs.js file and a mail sub directory.