retrieving invisible email

alastc · Post by **alastc** » February 12th, 2004, 8:55 am

I did a very foolish thing, and I'm hoping someone can help me...

I thought I was deleting the contents of my junk folder (cntr-a, del), and I then cleared the trash, not realising it was my inbox!

I did quickly back up the Inbox file (21MB) in my profile/mail folder, which has all the mail in it, but I can't get Thunderbird to see it there. I deleted the msf file to try and get it to 'see' it, but no luck.

It's not the end of the world, i can get at the text in the file, but not through Thunderbird... Any ideas?

Cheers,

-Alastair

John Liebson · Post by **John Liebson** » February 12th, 2004, 10:19 am

One thing that sometimes works is to turn Tbird off, keep the original inbox, and make a copy of it, then restart Tbird; that may cause the copy to appear. If that works, you can then copy the visible messages from the copy into the "real" in-box.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 12th, 2004, 10:52 am

Thanks John, I have tried that but it didn't work. The folder appeared, but it was empty when I clicked into it, which is why I called it 'inivisble' emails!