Comments on: Recover deleted or corrupted Thunderbird messages

By: Bruno Santos

Bruno Santos — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:45:49 +0000

Well done! It’s a life saver. I was able to recover 900+ emails that thunderbird had disappeared with ! Thank you so much !

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:54:59 +0000

Glad you were able to recover your emails.

By: Thiru

Thiru — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:36:26 +0000

Thank you………..so much…….. you have saved nearly 4000 mails, and saved me from many problems..

By: Thiru

Thiru — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:33:33 +0000

Superb One.. Not many issues solved like this… Very Useful…….

By: Cristian Fasie

Cristian Fasie — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:32:04 +0000

THANK YOUUUUUUUU !!!!!!

By: X

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:46:49 +0000

More info at www.z-a-recovery.com/thunderbird-deleted-messages.htm

By: JJames

JJames — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:43:15 +0000

Thank you so, so, so, so, so much. You just saved me 2 hours or more of writing an e-mail :)

By: david lui

david lui — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:03 +0000

today i dont’ know inbox the email all move to trash. please back to inbox .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:04:28 +0000

you are an absolute sweetheart!!!! It worked.

By: PaulR

PaulR — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:10:44 +0000

Thanks, top tip! Thought I’d lost everything and now I’m getting it back as I edit each file. Top banana..

By: Thunderbird foul-up. - www.Head-Case.org

Thunderbird foul-up. - www.Head-Case.org — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:17:27 +0000

[...] Thunderbird messages with the a similar approach recommended here, maybe duplicate your folders and give it a try. It may be worth posting your query to Thunderbird [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:22:35 +0000

Excellent tip nearly paid $20 for a program that does what you describe
Thanks

By: website design New York City

website design New York City — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:29:49 +0000

thank you! That looks like a great resource

By: Max

Max — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:34:30 +0000

This has been a veryyyy useful post. It really works. I had about 1200 emails in my inbox and samn they were not opening. Even though the folder used to show up in thunderbird, but when I used to click on the inbox folder I was not able to see my previous emails !!!! I tried everything nothing work. Thanx a million for above posts. Just downloaded textpad, opened the inbox file (it does not have any extension, so choose open all files option in textpad). It took a while for textpad to open since mine was 800MB file. Pressed F8 search for X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 and replaced with X-Mozilla-Status: 0000

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:38:24 +0000

Thank you so much!

By: melanie

melanie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:54:03 +0000

It never worked for me and have been losing mails mysteriously. I have infact lost more than 6ooo mails

By: Shashikant Gaikwad

Shashikant Gaikwad — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:20:39 +0000

Thanks for knowing me about removing deleted mark into the mbox file of thunderbird. It helped me a lot.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:04:18 +0000

My PC crashed but I had a back-up of the email folder but not my profile. I rebuilt the PC and restored my email folders. Everytime I went into one of my keepers folders, it deleted my emails. Since I didn’t backup my profile, I had to reset the ‘recover disk space’ to not delete emails (every folder and the server in the accounts setup), modify every X-Mozilla-Status to 0001. You can only do this if you still have your .msf file

By: Foreigner

Foreigner — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:26:30 +0000

The technique works only if you have not done a “Compact” operation on the mail folder.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:14:07 +0000

THANYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU – set text editor to replace all x-delivery-status: 0008 with x-delivery-status: 0000 and it worked!!!!