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I accidentally deleted my profile. Is it posible to restore it?

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I entered the profile manager by "runing thunderbird.exe -p" and accidentally deleted my default profile. Now I cannot start thunderbird because it does not find a profile. I have looked in the profile folder, and the folder with my default profile is not there. In the recycle bin I do not find anything related to my profile. Help, please!!

I entered the profile manager by "runing thunderbird.exe -p" and accidentally deleted my default profile. Now I cannot start thunderbird because it does not find a profile. I have looked in the profile folder, and the folder with my default profile is not there. In the recycle bin I do not find anything related to my profile. Help, please!!

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No way to get it back unless you can restore from one of your periodic backups.

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Thank you Wayne. One more question: Could I restore my profile if I undelete the files in the "profile" directory using a program for hard drive file recovery?

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Quite possibly.

If your accounts are all imap, then you could just recreate the accounts in Thunderbird and you will have only lost contacts and filters.

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I see. What if my account was POP3?. Also, would there be a way to recover the emails or the email texts from a file if I recover the deleted files?

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Q1: If all your mail is still on the pop server (perhaps unlikely) then you are safe.

Q2: yes