How to recover deleted email account and lost it all in Thunderbird? There have been problems sending you emails and during the process of switching to IMAP, I accidentally deleted the email account, in which all of my folders were taken with it, so now I have nothing in the folder I found in my profiles. I read on one of the path boards to point to TB. I opened it and it seems that everything is inside. I do not know how to direct TB to that file to access my folders. I should have backed it up this before, but in my excitement, to make the email work, I made the mistake of backed it up before removing it.
Recovering deleted email accounts If you have accidentally deleted your mail accounts by clicking on the “Remove Account” button in Thunderbird, it does not mean that your mail has actually been deleted from your computer. This mail is sent to the Mail folder in your profile folder. Must be present in the folder. (It assumes that the account is not using the global inbox, in that case, its mail will be stored in local folders.) Once you have gone to your profile folder and verified that the mail still exists for the deleted account, then return it to Thunderbird. Before proceeding you may want to make a temporary backup of your profile folder. Start Thunderbird and create a new mail account, using the same email address and server settings that you deleted. You can do this by entering your name, email address and password in the new Accounts Wizard, and pressing Continue. Do not use the “Get a new account” button, because it is just a pitch to sell a new email address. This will create a new account directory with a numeric suffix. For example, if your old mail account was pop.gmail.com, it would create a pop-gmail-1.com. To specify the old account directory and restart Thunderbird, use Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Browse in Local Directory. Check the inbox folder in the accounts to see if there are messages in it or not. If not, you may have specified the wrong location and then use the browse button. Recommended you leave the account directory that you created in a single step – this is due to only a few default files which are created in Thunderbird.