The pros and cons of upgrading (cont'd).....

[poltr1]

So I downloaded and reinstalled Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 in the same location it had been. And it appears on first glimpse that all my email, settings, and filters are gone. I did a little bit of searching, and was able to find all my messages from fuse.net from the time I started the account last year up to last week, when I last downloaded my email. (Whew!) My Gmail account was set up as an IMAP account, so my email should still be there on the server; all I had on my PC was a copy of the headers.

So now I wait for the downloads once more.

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[hms42]

If the data still exists in the profile folder, you should be able to copy it into the new one generated by Thunderbird. (It just may be a number of folders down from the C: drive (if windows based). Check the path settings and then look up a couple of levels. I have done the move a couple of times over the years when I have upgraded the computer.)

Hopefully you get lucky on the email.

[poltr1]

I think I did get lucky in that I didn't lose any email. It was stored in the Local Folders folder. I still haven't been able to figure out how to recreate or download my Gmail messages that were moved to folders.

[hms42]

That is good news at least. No clue on the Gmail one since I don't download my gmail account. (Nor do I check it regularly.)