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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Rising from the ashes! Lost Thunderbird Emails, Folders, Files & Profiles

9:49 PM | Posted by Amber | Edit Post
Something mortifying happened to me today. I had to hard reboot my computer - you know when you have way too much stuff open and it's easier to just shut the stupid thing off than it is to exercise patience and close things down properly? Yeah, it was one of those moments. Power button...pressed.


So...I reboot and my email in Thunderbird is jacked up. I happen to have about 6 different email profiles that come into my email client, and several filters & folders, yada yada. I live by my email! So, when it looked differently I panic.

I open it up and I have duplicate folders, I'm missing my "work" folder, and things are just odd. I head over to Mozilla.com to see if anyone else has had this very same issue...and it seem that either I stink at searching, or I am unique in this stupid boat.

If you have ever had this problem -- here, I'll say it clearly for the search engines -- MISSING EMAIL IN THUNDERBIRD, MISSING FOLDERS IN THUNDERBIRD, MISSING FOLDERS IN THUNDERBIRD, MISSING PROFILES IN THUNDERBIRD...here's how I fixed it. And it took me about 45 minutes.
  • Open Thunderbird
  • Click TOOLS > ACCOUNT SETTINGS
  • Remove ALL accounts

  • Find your Thunderbird\Profiles\4c82ejiw.default\Mail folder
  • Create a new folder (i.e. BACKUP MAIL)
  • Move ALL profiles to this backup folder
  • Download the file at the bottom of this page:
  • Open Thunderbird > Click TOOLS > Click ADD-ONS
  • Click INSTALL
  • Navigate to the file you downloaded
  • Click OPEN
  • In Thunderbird
  • Click TOOLS > ACCOUNT SETTINGS
  • Add all of the accounts that are missing
    • Be sure to NOT use Global Inbox (this creates separate folders for each addy
  • Go back to Thunderbird\Profiles\4c82ejiw.default\Mail\NEW FOLDER (the backup folder you created)
  • Identify each folder by the files within it and note what folder belongs to which address.

  • Back in Thunderbird, in your folder list, right-click the first folder to import
    • Import mbox file --or-- Import Directly One or More mBox files
    • Sort by TYPE
    • Select all of the "File" type
    • Click OPEN
  • All folders will import, but there will be a number appended to them.
  • Right-click > RENAME > Remove numbers
That's it, I fixed it, it worked. THANK HEAVENS!!
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Monday, November 12, 2007

The X-Files

3:40 PM | Posted by Amber | Edit Post
Dooo DOOOO dooo doo DOOO DOOOOO

Any X-Files lovers out there? Man, I miss that show. Mulder & Scully were the ultimate paranormal investigators in my humble opinion.

Right. But that's not really what this post is about. This post is about making backups when you're just going to replace one little file here and there.

You know I've been updating your site when your FTP manager shows files called "X File" as the type. HA! It's a little footprint I leave behind...but it works great!

When you're going to replace a file on your server, say it's index.html -- rename the original index.html.x and leave it on your server, then upload the newbie.

Good idea right? Then all of your "original" files stick together in a little group of X Files. Easy to find, easy to restore.

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