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C/Windows drive wiped, need to recover my emails

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Recently my C/Windows drive (Solid state) failed, I have the data (it was installed on the D drive of my computer) for Thunderbird however my profile as far as I can tell was stored on my now gone former C drive, I need to recover those emails as I had several personal messages from a departed friend that I had saved as well as a number of emailed receipts for travel etc for the business I am building that I need to use as write offs on my taxes. How do I recover and/or more specifically re-integrate the previous install into my current one?

Recently my C/Windows drive (Solid state) failed, I have the data (it was installed on the D drive of my computer) for Thunderbird however my profile as far as I can tell was stored on my now gone former C drive, I need to recover those emails as I had several personal messages from a departed friend that I had saved as well as a number of emailed receipts for travel etc for the business I am building that I need to use as write offs on my taxes. How do I recover and/or more specifically re-integrate the previous install into my current one?

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I presume these are POP and/or local folders. Try this: - start thunderbird - click 'account settings' - scroll to local folders. - click the browse button to locate/select the folder on D drive Not knowing exactly what is there, you may have to try different folders, but if there are message folders there, this should make them viewable.

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I presume these are POP and/or local folders. Try this: - start thunderbird - click 'account settings' - scroll to local folders. - click the browse button to locate/select the folder on D drive Not knowing exactly what is there, you may have to try different folders, but if there are message folders there, this should make them viewable.

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It worked! Thank you very much, sorry for the delay in responding I had to figure out exactly which folder had what I wanted to recover in it and then do it. Of course once it worked I had a ton of e-mails to sort though, but better that than losing it all.