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Shmangni karremëzime gjoja asistence. S’do t’ju kërkojmë kurrë të bëni një thirrje apo të dërgoni tekst te një numër telefoni, apo të na jepni të dhëna personale. Ju lutemi, raportoni veprimtari të dyshimtë duke përdorur mundësinë “Raportoni Abuzim”.

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Kjo rrjedhë është arkivuar. Ju lutemi, bëni një pyetje të re, nëse keni nevojë për ndihmë.

I accidentally deleted years(!) of emails. How to restore?

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laurent11
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Hi,

So, I wanted to set up automatically removal of deleted messages that were older than 30 days in my Trash folder. So I went into my settings and set the account to delete messages that were older than 30 days... thinking it only affected the ones in the Trash.

OK, I can see you smiling and shaking your head. In my defense, I didn't sleep enough last night.

Anyway... I'm in the process of restoring my profiles from my backups (at least I didn't get that wrong!)

What is the best way for me to get back all of the deleted data without losing the messages I received since my last backup (about 20 hours ago).

My plan is this:

  • Restore yesterday's profile to a folder
  • Move or rename my current profile
  • Move the restored folder (with the correct name) into the location of the corrupted profile

My concern is that even if I do that, the IMAP data on the server is corrupt and will cause the messages to be deleted again. Is that the case? If so, is there a way for me to take the restored profile data and store the messages as local files? At least I won't have lost the data completely.

Thanks,

L

Hi, So, I wanted to set up automatically removal of deleted messages that were older than 30 days in my Trash folder. So I went into my settings and set the account to delete messages that were older than 30 days... thinking it only affected the ones in the Trash. OK, I can see you smiling and shaking your head. In my defense, I didn't sleep enough last night. Anyway... I'm in the process of restoring my profiles from my backups (at least I didn't get that wrong!) What is the best way for me to get back all of the deleted data without losing the messages I received since my last backup (about 20 hours ago). My plan is this: * Restore yesterday's profile to a folder * Move or rename my current profile * Move the restored folder (with the correct name) into the location of the corrupted profile My concern is that even if I do that, the IMAP data on the server is corrupt and will cause the messages to be deleted again. Is that the case? If so, is there a way for me to take the restored profile data and store the messages as local files? At least I won't have lost the data completely. Thanks, L

Zgjidhje e zgjedhur

OK, I was right about the IMAP server. So here is what I did:

  • Restore yesterday's profile to a folder from my daily backups (whew!)
  • Rename my current profile folder
  • Move the restored profile folder into the location of the corrupted profile
  • Go offline
  • Start Thunderbird
  • Copy all IMAP folders to Local Folders in TB
  • Go online
  • Let all folders sync
  • Move messages in Local Folder back to IMAP folders

I think I'm back to where I was before this mistake.

Hopefully it helps someone sometime in the future. Let me know!

L

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laurent11
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Zgjidhja e Zgjedhur

OK, I was right about the IMAP server. So here is what I did:

  • Restore yesterday's profile to a folder from my daily backups (whew!)
  • Rename my current profile folder
  • Move the restored profile folder into the location of the corrupted profile
  • Go offline
  • Start Thunderbird
  • Copy all IMAP folders to Local Folders in TB
  • Go online
  • Let all folders sync
  • Move messages in Local Folder back to IMAP folders

I think I'm back to where I was before this mistake.

Hopefully it helps someone sometime in the future. Let me know!

L