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Redownloading all emails but deleting popstate.dat had no effect

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I have thousands of emails on the gmail server and I thought to download them to my local NAS storage using Thunderbird with POP configured. After the initial download many emails were missing. I want to try again because during the initial download I was sorting thru and deleting a lot of emails and I wonder if that somehow broke something in TB. So this time I want to allow the entire POP download to happen before I start sorting and deleting. I removed all my email storage and also the popstate.dat file (advice found on other messages on this forum). However TB will only download new emails and recreate a popstate.dat file. Any advice?

I have thousands of emails on the gmail server and I thought to download them to my local NAS storage using Thunderbird with POP configured. After the initial download many emails were missing. I want to try again because during the initial download I was sorting thru and deleting a lot of emails and I wonder if that somehow broke something in TB. So this time I want to allow the entire POP download to happen before I start sorting and deleting. I removed all my email storage and also the popstate.dat file (advice found on other messages on this forum). However TB will only download new emails and recreate a popstate.dat file. Any advice?

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Matt
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Have you set the limit for downloading in your setting on Google? You have to if you want to get the mail with POP if it has already been downloaded.