Thunderbird date search in Windows Explorer
Hello,
I've exported most of my past emails to my computer as my email storage was getting full. I exported them all to a file folder in Windows Explorer. Unfortunately these files don't have their original date attached to them (date created/modified/accessed etc shows the date they were exported) - you have to open the file in order to see the date the email was received. Is there a way to organize them by date? The search feature in Windows Explorer is not doing it - if I put in "2021" it finds all files with those numbers but that's not necessarily the date they were received.
Not sure if this is the right place to go but any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks so much. :)
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In TB 91, if I save a message as an eml file with Ctrl+S, the file name has 2021-07-10 1122 at the end, for a message received July 10, 2021, at 11:22 AM. How are you saving messages? You could copy messages to Local Folders, then delete them from the mail server, if space on the server is limited. When saving as eml files, the file name can be customized with the ImportExportTools NG add-on.
Thanks sfhowes, but I exported from Telus Webmail as there was a large volume of emails to save. I've since deleted the emails from my account because storage was limited. I'm hoping there's a way to search by date after the fact.
If your Telus account was set up in TB, the mail could be downloaded, copied to Local Folders or saved outside of TB, then deleted from the server. If the mail was saved from webmail without the received dates in the file names, I don't know of an easy way to extract the dates. If the webmail files are eml files, they can be imported to TB, and then you can see if it's possible to export from TB with the dates.