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How do you read archived emails

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HOW DO I ACCESS ARCHIVED EMAILS ??? I was getting error message sent folder full cannot save so I archived 2 years’ worth of emails to fix now I need cannot access to archived messages. If I did not need to access them I would have deleted ?? Why archive if they are not accessible ???

HOW DO I ACCESS ARCHIVED EMAILS ??? I was getting error message sent folder full cannot save so I archived 2 years’ worth of emails to fix now I need cannot access to archived messages. If I did not need to access them I would have deleted ?? Why archive if they are not accessible ???

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It is in Thunderbird. One exception is Gmail... It's archive folder is "all mail"

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Matt
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look in thew folder named archive.

CustomManager
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Thanks:

I was looking in the directory tree not in Thunderbird ????

Matt
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It is in Thunderbird. One exception is Gmail... It's archive folder is "all mail"

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I archived all my saved 2014 emails. I need to find one of them to solve a legal matter. There is an "Archive" button on the left of my Thunderbird screen. There is a "2014" button as a subfolder of this. When I click 2014, absolutely nothing happens.