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used maprepair and now 18K emails are gone

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marker66
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I had a problem as suddenly when I opened mails I could not read them. I then read the internet and decided to use the MAP REPAIR option in thunderbird. When I pushed map repair my mails went from 18000 to 435 (last 7 days or so) and all the rest is gone. My Local files inbox went to 35 GB , however mij main inbox which strangely enough is not show in thunderbird seperategly only as part of the Local folders is still there and much bigger

I had a problem as suddenly when I opened mails I could not read them. I then read the internet and decided to use the MAP REPAIR option in thunderbird. When I pushed map repair my mails went from 18000 to 435 (last 7 days or so) and all the rest is gone. My Local files inbox went to 35 GB , however mij main inbox which strangely enough is not show in thunderbird seperategly only as part of the Local folders is still there and much bigger

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Wayne Mery
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Is this a pop account?

Do you mean you used Folder > Properties > Repair Folder ?

marker66
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yes indeed . no clue what happened :-( found an old inox file and put it in the directory , deleted the msf but that also does not work as it wont rebuild de msf and this file shows empty even tough its 1,2 gB.