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how to recover emails after i deleted the roaming folder

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placebostar
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Hello

i deleted my roaming folder by mistake and i can't access my emails.

i used a software called crash plan to recover some data and it recovered a folder that has like 5 gb of data and 2 profiles ...but even if i select this folder in server settings i can't see mu old email.

now i only see some old stuff in the sent folder.

Can i somehow recover my emails back?

Thank you

Hello i deleted my roaming folder by mistake and i can't access my emails. i used a software called crash plan to recover some data and it recovered a folder that has like 5 gb of data and 2 profiles ...but even if i select this folder in server settings i can't see mu old email. now i only see some old stuff in the sent folder. Can i somehow recover my emails back? Thank you

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Toad-Hall
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If you deleted the 'Roaming' folder then you completely deleted all Profiles, all preferences, all mail, all contacts etc etc etc. It's almost as bad as reinstalling an OS from a Thunderbird point of view and for any other non-Windows installed apps.

You could try this info:

Otherwise, You would need to use a backup - assuming you did create a backup of your Profile folder.

If you had an IMAP mail account then all of those emails are stored on the server, so creating a new Profile and IMAP mail account would get all emails on server.

Pop mail accounts would only redownload everything still in the server Inbox.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/what-appdata-folder