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I have three accounts on Thunderbird (two are gmail, one is fastmail Overnight all my inboxes are empty. I can send email to them now and they go to my inbox but I seem to have lost the contents of all three inboxes over night Can you help please?

I have three accounts on Thunderbird (two are gmail, one is fastmail Overnight all my inboxes are empty. I can send email to them now and they go to my inbox but I seem to have lost the contents of all three inboxes over night Can you help please?

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You might check tools>developer tools>error console There may be something useful there.

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Did you check the accounts online?

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David - thank you for your attention

Yes, the emails are gone there as well ( all three accounts). All IMAP

It is as if I deleted all the emails (in three different email accounts, two gmail and one fastmail). I can make mistakes, of course, but not the same mistake on all three accounts

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I encourage you to check with email providers to see if they have logs on recent mail arrivals. Thunderbird doesn't have facility to delete an entire account at once. Very puzzling. I am at a complete loss on how three accounts should simultaneously be empty,

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OK, thank you -- just weird (I feel like I have been hacked - but not all three accounts at same time - and my laptop has been with me...

One final question -- Can I see when a file has been deleted and moved to trash. If I knew that, I could do a manual recovery?

David, thank you again

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You might check tools>developer tools>error console There may be something useful there.