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restoring previously archived folders in thunderbird

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latinaj
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I wanted to know i had moved 108 folders from my yahoo mail to mozilla thunderbird and placed them in the archive folder..these were very important folders because they contained shopping receipts and other important messages from people.Well unfortunately i had to refresh my pc last night and re-install thunderbird again and now..i can't recover them back!!I need help recovering these folders back into thunderbird again into the archive folder!!I'm really freaked out!!Please anyone..help me get these back!!

I wanted to know i had moved 108 folders from my yahoo mail to mozilla thunderbird and placed them in the archive folder..these were very important folders because they contained shopping receipts and other important messages from people.Well unfortunately i had to refresh my pc last night and re-install thunderbird again and now..i can't recover them back!!I need help recovering these folders back into thunderbird again into the archive folder!!I'm really freaked out!!Please anyone..help me get these back!!

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Matt
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Is there a Windows.old folder on your computer. If not your data is gone. Is yes their might be a chance.

First is the folder exist enable display of hidden files and folders http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zxue/archive/2012/03/08/win8-howto-19-show-hidden-files-folders-and-drives.aspx and see if you can locate a Thunderbird folder in Windows.old