How to locate and restore a deleted mail folder from HD backup
One of my mail folders has disappeared from Thunderbird, perhaps accidentally deleted but it's not in the Trash folder. My questions are:
1. Can I restore it to my SSD from my backup drive (Seagate drive with their Toolkit backup software)?
2. If so, where do I look on my drive and backup for my mail folder files? I used to know where they were but the path appears to have changed, and a search of my C: drive didn't locate them.
I'm running Thunderbird 110.0b1 (64-bit), beta, on Windows 11 Home. The emails come from a POP server and are stored only on my PC, not on the server.
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The default location for POP accounts is at c:\users\<yourID>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\<yourprofile>\Mail
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The default location for POP accounts is at c:\users\<yourID>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\<yourprofile>\Mail
Thanks, David, that's where it always was in the past but I'd looked almost everywhere in my current profile (for the TB beta installation) without finding a Mail folder.
Finally I noticed another profile for today's "release" version, mixed in with some older profiles (2021 and earlier), and it did have a Mail folder including the parent of the lost folder. Unfortunately, it matches today's version of my mail folders and is missing the folder I need.
Then I went to my backup drive, but none of the incremental backups include /appdata/. That suggests a problem with my backup configuration - maybe appdata counts as a system folder? So the lost folder is not recoverable, and I'll try to fix my backup settings so they include folders like appdata.
Thank you for the help. Maybe I missed a warning to beta users that their beta profile doesn't actually include mail files.
If desired, the profile can be moved elsewhere, e.g., c:\PROFILE instead of the appdata setup. Thunderbird just looks at the ...appdata\thunderbird\profiles.ini text file which points to the location. As a side comment, I do not recommend use of beta for anything other than testing new releases.