Lost Emails
I have recently updated a computer to use a SSD drive, thus I wanted to move all Emails from the original HD to the SDD.
I set up the SDD to run windows 7 with the latest updates the installed Thunderbird (also Firefox), then set about moving relevant Thunderbird files. (Firefox was completed without problems.)
Immediately I noticed all previous emails of two separate accounts on the HD had disappeared, leaving me only with the emails of the then current day. Some folders had also disappeared.
After some time of trying to find the "missing" mails on the HD using suggestions from http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail and elsewhere on the internet, I have been unable to to find them. BUT I can globally search for a word in the emails that have gone missing and they are shown to me. On clicking on search email list, the list is blank. I have established the file global-messages-db.sqlite contains the word I searched for.
Has anyone any suggestions
are the mails truely lost? is it possible to recreate the emails from global-messages-db.sqlite?
For any suggestions/help, TIA Richard
Chosen solution
After a bit of thinking, I opted to copy the HD profile from the HD to the SDD, the SDD directory used had no apparent "link" with the of the new default profile directory.
I then edited the start up of Thunderbird with the switch -p (see "Command line arguments - Thunderbird - MozillaZine Knowledge....".
Immediately I started Thunderbird, I was given a choice of two profiles (the new SDD and the old HD). On chosing the old HD profile, all the disappeared emails were available again.
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You haven't told us precisely which files you have moved, nor have you mentioned "profile".
Most people with an SSD use it for their OS and applications, and keep the data on the traditional spinning metal HDD.
Your apparently successful search is probably looking at a search cache and not the messages themselves.
You need to look for your profile. It will be hidden.
As I said, Firefox is completed succesfully, some files were moved.
In Thunderbird, I have as yet not moved any files ( that is why there are no mentions of moved files). I am still trying to understand what I need to move and from where. The use of a profile is clear to me. The .sqlite file is just a remnant of search database created just prior to my problem occurring.
However, the missing emails are the priority. If the emails are really gone, then I am wasting my time?
Note that as Thunderbird normally puts profiles in C:/user/ ... /App_Data/...... , I will eventually also have the Thunderbird data on the SSD (perhaps you can confirm or otherwise).
My experience with Thunderbird is that I have never been really sure where it puts the profile data it actually uses, though I have successfully moved profiles before.
Thanks, I will look at the link provided but I think this is nothing new for me.
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After a bit of thinking, I opted to copy the HD profile from the HD to the SDD, the SDD directory used had no apparent "link" with the of the new default profile directory.
I then edited the start up of Thunderbird with the switch -p (see "Command line arguments - Thunderbird - MozillaZine Knowledge....".
Immediately I started Thunderbird, I was given a choice of two profiles (the new SDD and the old HD). On chosing the old HD profile, all the disappeared emails were available again.