TwoDrifters said

I am in need of some help. I have been trying to find my email folder on my computer but my email folder does not exist. I have several email accounts on my Thunderbird, and I cannot find the files where they are stored. I cannot view the emails of one account but when I do a search for a specific emails I can see the thumbnail but not the full email. I have tried to search for the Thunderbird Folder on my Mac but find only the application (Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<Profile name>/) Please help if you can. Thank you.

Thunderbird likes to prepend a dot "." in the front of file names. That's a UNIX standard that makes the files invisible unless specifically requested.

In a UNIX-like worksheet or shell window you can specify something like:

ls -a

to show dotted files. There may be a selection in Apples OS to ask Finder to show all of the files regardless of their initial dots but the procedure has changed from OS to OS.

I'm sorry. I haven't figured out how to do things in this "user friendly" help area. I come from programing in FORTRAN using punched cards.

Thunderbird likes to prepend a dot "." in the front of file names. That's a UNIX standard that makes the files invisible unless specifically requested.

In a UNIX-like worksheet or shell/terminal window you can specify something like:

ls -a

to show dotted files. There may be a selection in Apples OS to ask Finder to show all of the files regardless of their initial dots but the procedure has changed from OS to OS as Apple does its thing.

Thank you so much for your help. For some reason I was only able to see the extension from within Thunderbird. But I figured out the problem and order is restored to the universe. Thanks again.