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I went to my email today and all of my in file emails were listed but when I clicked on them nothing showed up in the preview pane. I did a lot of web searching for solutions and found nothing that would help. One suggested repairing the folder. When I did that the emails that were listed but not not showing up when clicked on were all deleted.


Any ideas?
I have looked everywhere on the web and on my computer, trash files deleted files I cant find them anywhere.

Not sure I can help you. I quit using email clients as I check my mail from many sources so I stick with web clients.

Are you setup on Thunderbird as an IMAP or POP3 account?

Roughly how many e-mails are we talking about? 20, 200, 2000?

What happens with a brand-new, just-received e-mail? Send yourself one if necessary.

Can you go directly to the source with your browser?

Personally, I have not been thrilled with Thunderbird.

I thought this was going to be a knight rider thread then I remembered that was a Firebird, not a thunderbird.

There were many emails, hundreds not thousands.
If I sent a new email I would get it.
I have many separate folders they are all ok.
It is only the inbox. The emails are gone.
I think I might have been able to copy them to a different folder to be able to see them. I learned this after I clicked on repair and they disappeared.
They are not in a compacted file they seem to be gone.

Is it ALL e-mail, in the inbox, previous to a certain date? I would guess so.

Sounds like the inbox file just got lunched. IIRC, this is a separate individual file which can be copied out, deleted, then re-created.

This is most likely what the "repair" option did but I would start with a clean, shiny new file. Never trust a database file that has lunched up that badly, provided you can easily create a new one.

Thunderbird is not on the list of programs that I absolutely refuse to install but it is definitely not one I can wholeheartedly recommend. Maybe for a home user but not for a business. I suggest webmail if Outlook is not available.

NEVER get on the computer after drinking Thunderbird.

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Just a possible idea .... since I haven't used Thunderbird before .... but Outlook has the ability to export your messages to a file. If Thunderbird has that option, maybe try exporting the messages and then re-importing them.

Also, have you upgraded Thunderbird lately? Maybe the file containing your data got misplaced into a different folder.

Maybe read this and see if it offers any help?

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/thunderbird-email-database.htm There is also a link at the bottom of the page to troubleshoot Thunderbird problems. Maybe give that a shot.

Ive looked I have given up those emails are toast,

I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I would imagine those e-mails are still on your server, unless you set it up to delete after reading. You might try downloading another e-mail software program like Incredimail or the like, and putting in your info to set up your account and see if it downloads some of your previous e-mails. Usually it'll go for the last 30 days and that's better than nothing.

Did you just lose the incoming? Do you still have the sent? I have so many questions and so little brains. Good Luck

I have read a lot online the inbox folder got corrupted.

The repair folder option was my down fall. That deleted everything corrupted.

All I had to do was copy the corrupt emails to any folder other than the inbox and they would be readable. I found this out after I tried to repair the folder.

Shouldnt "repair folder" fix the folder and not get rid of any chance of saving your files?

General thoughts:

Check for viruses (one may have come in on an e-mail).

Re-install with latest updates. Or, re-install the original version, as an update may have hosed the inbox.

Try opening individual e-mails in another program. (I've been using MS Outlook for years, so I'm not sure if Eudora, etc., are still marketed. Maybe download a trial version of MS Outlook, and try opening an e-mail with the right-click menu, setting Outlook as the default.)

Run ckdsk in Windows. Could be that Thunderbird saved to a corrupt cluster-or-two on the hard drive, and running ckdsk will save the files.

Download Ccleaner from piriform.com, install, then run registry cleaner from the registry tab. This might find cross-linked files and registry errors that might solve the problem.

Most likely though is a virus contracted from an e-mail.

Hope one of these works.

suggestion...

Goto an IMAP setup if possible where your client just syncs your email with the server. Should your PC go bad or get a virus, your emails are still all on the server.

They are gone. No need for more suggestions.