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I messed around with the account folders (which I store in a custom place not in C drive\roaming, BTW) and now I can't access them in my mailbox; what to do?

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lostenroute
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That one sentence says it. Inbox.sbd is missing some folders (that appear as subfolders in my inbox in Thunderbird itself). I had a subfolder misfiled under another folder (I think T-bird did that not me but...) and tried to move it in the sbd file and now I find MANY of my inbox folders are missing (and are not in the inbox.sbd file). Is there anything I can do? I may have a backup of the inbox but will not be absolultely current. Thanks in advance.

That one sentence says it. Inbox.sbd is missing some folders (that appear as subfolders in my inbox in Thunderbird itself). I had a subfolder misfiled under another folder (I think T-bird did that not me but...) and tried to move it in the sbd file and now I find MANY of my inbox folders are missing (and are not in the inbox.sbd file). Is there anything I can do? I may have a backup of the inbox but will not be absolultely current. Thanks in advance.

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Gnospen
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Inbox.sbd is a directory and should only contain INBOX and its sub-folders (Data and index-files) EDIT And subsubfolders You have access to all folders (files without extension) and you could easily import them into you present system. For example by using an add-on like ImportExportTools

I think its making things complicated by having subfolders to Inbox. You could as easy have them in a directory next to it. Inbox should always be kept small and compacted.

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