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I had to reload Thunderbird, how do I restore my old emails saved on my hard drive?

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BKRUSA
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I had to reload Thunderbird and all my personal folders were lost. My past emails are on my hard drive how do I restore them?

I had to reload Thunderbird and all my personal folders were lost. My past emails are on my hard drive how do I restore them?

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duggabe
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In reloading TB you probably ended up with a new profile. If the old profile is still there, you can switch to it. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-multiple-profiles