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What is the size of your Trash folder? Is it reasonable considering the number of emails that (allegedly) are there? (Under the covers, TB actually is copying emails and flying flags.)īecause of all the copying and flagging that is occurring, it is entirely possible that an email exists multiple times in multiple places, with varying flag settings. It will disappear (not be displayed, although still there physically) from Trash and reappear in its original folder. This is because physically the email still is present, only the flag has been changed. Note that after an email is deleted, it still is possible to recover (undelete) it: (There is no Trash folder for Trash.) This ‘doubly-deleted’ email still can be retrieved by changing the Status flag. It still physically is there, but as it is flagged as deleted it is not displayed. This also holds true for an email that is in Trash, it can be ‘deleted’ from Trash and will not show up there. Physically it is there, but flagged as deleted, so it is not displayed. This file then will have to be undeleted, and more complex handling is needed.Īn email that has been deleted does not show in its ‘original’ email folder.
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If you HAVE compacted an email folder, then the Windows FILE that ‘is’ it is now a DELeted file. MSF (index) file to align with the actual (un-read) email status. Rt-click (on the mail folder that you changed) > Properties > Repair Folder. Change the last digit (only) in the Status from ‘9’ to ‘0’ this marks it as Unread. Using Find (Ctrl+F), specify something that you know about the email that is missing: subject, date, some text within it, … locate the email.ħ. Here are some values and meanings: (there are other digits also, which indicate the Reply and Forward status, among other things)Ħ. You will be looking at values in X-Mozilla-Status:, not Status2.ĥ. Within each email, very near the top, are two ‘status’ lines maintained by TB. Using Notepad or WordPad, Open a mail file (Sent, Trash, wherever you want to look).Ĥ. – MSF File, which is an indexing file ignore it for now.ģ. There are two files for each email folder: In the very top line, where it shows which file or folder you are displaying, Rt-click > Select All (this will highlight the entire line) Tools > Account Settings > Server Settings > Local Directory: Where to find that Windows file? The easiest way is: All emails in each TB email folder are stored in a distinct Windows file. Do NOT Compact any email folder that may have any missing email.ġ.

The following is from TB 78, which I think is similar to your 68.
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It doesn’t seem to happen all of the time, but for some reason, occasionally when I go back to look for a deleted email – it is just gone, and I am pretty sure that I didn’t do anything to permanently delete it – just moved it to the trash.Īny ideas on what might be happening or how to prevent it will be appreciated!

I thought that I could perhaps there was a way to set it so that all Trash goes into the local ISP folder and isn’t lost somehow? It seems that sometimes deleting an email deletes it permanently, and it isn’t anywhere within TB. It is not showing in either Trash folder, and actually should only be in the local ISP Trash, since nothing is downloaded into the Gmail mailboxes. I recently noticed that email that was sent to the Gmail address and downloaded into the local ISP TB folder, and THEN deleted, disappears. Maybe more info that needed, but that’s the set-up. I never poll Gmail directly, but email sent “From” that address, is saved in my Gmail account sent folder in TB as well as in Gmail online. I have it set up with 2 separate email accounts, and both are set to POP3 since I want to be able to delete and change things locally, but not in the online accounts as I use two computers and don’t want something deleted from the servers until I have seen it on both.Īll of my email – both my local ISP and Gmail, are sent through my ISP address, so all get delivered to my local email mailbox in TB, but I can choose which reply to email address I use when sending.
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I am running TB v 68.12.0 on my Win 10 Pro V 20H2 laptop. Good morning! Here’s a question for you Thunderbird pros!
