I download my gmail to Thunderbird. Something happened that caused
Thunderbird to no longer recognize that my account existed along with
folders containing hundreds of messages. Since nothing I tried fixed
the problem, I ended up deleting my "default" folder and reloading
from my previous week's backup. Everything is working now.
Is there any way to tell Thunderbird (or gmail) to re-download the
week's worth of messages I lost?
Do you download all of your messages from GMail via POP server or do you
use IMAP?
For IMAP, your messages should still be at GMail.com. Can you set all
the messages you want to download as "unread" so that Thunderbird will
download them? TBird downloads new/unread messages and sometimes older
messages as long as they're in your online inbox.
For POP, you can go to the account settings--Tools > Account Settings >
Server Settings > Local Directory... -- and insert the location of
messages for GMail account. That should re-link the folders. Otherwise,
go to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile to
create a new profile without losing your messages.
Betty
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