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How to recover deleted emails (inbox/sent/trash folders)

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Gofonja
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So, I had some problems with login to email and solved them by adding new account with password. But then Mozilla Thunderbird created 2 same profiles. When someone wrote me I got 2 (duplicate) messages. So I erased 1 profile, and guess what, all messages from all profiles were deleted. All folders in Mozilla Thunderbird are empty (inbox/sent/trash).

So how I can recover all messages in all folders? Familly is gonna to kill me if I dont suceed to recover all.

So all messages are in folder Profiles but I dont know how to recover them and send to Mozilla Thunderbird. And full size of them is 466 GB. Do I need some program? I must recover them... Please help

So, I had some problems with login to email and solved them by adding new account with password. But then Mozilla Thunderbird created 2 same profiles. When someone wrote me I got 2 (duplicate) messages. So I erased 1 profile, and guess what, all messages from all profiles were deleted. All folders in Mozilla Thunderbird are empty (inbox/sent/trash). So how I can recover all messages in all folders? Familly is gonna to kill me if I dont suceed to recover all. So all messages are in folder ''Profiles'' but I dont know how to recover them and send to Mozilla Thunderbird. And full size of them is 466 GB. Do I need some program? I must recover them... Please help

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Zenos
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You're not using the word "profiles" in the usual way, so if you go looking for help with "profiles" you'll become confused. Reading between the lines, you created a second instance of the same account.

Your current profile is broken. The only suggestion I have is to create a brand new profile (I mean profile, not account) and then import what you can from the old one.

This add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/ may be useful to import the messages from the old profile.

This thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/995435 might also be helpful.

This article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb should get you started with the profile, and creating a new one.

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