[pchelpers] Re: folder missing in thunderbird

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi Re-Na,
>
> Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 2:34:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> GRH> I have my email sorted to folders in Thunderbird and today one of
> GRH> them and it's sub folder is gone.
> GRH> It was there yesterday, so I did a system restore to yesterday,
> GRH> and it is still not there.
> GRH> So I recreated the folder, meanwhile all the messages I had there
> GRH> are gone.
>
> System Restore typically does not affect data.
>
> If you know the contents or whatever of one of the messages, you might
> try searching for it within Thunderbird.
>
> Are folders stored as individual files in Windows?  If so, you might
> look in the Thunderbird data folders to see if the one that you're
> missing is there.
>
>   
Well, I think I found the spot in Vista.  I can see the name of it 
followed by .msf.
And I see the name of the folder.   It has 45 mb in that folder.
I'll try deleting the .msf file and see if that makes it come back.

If not, should I go into thunderbird and rename a folder with the exact 
same name?  How would that get the data back?
(When I added the folder back today I changed the name slightly.)

Re-Na



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