Computer crashed and lost email addresses

[Diana]

Yesterday morning my main computer crashed. I was able to store some of my stuff in the back-up file before using the system recovery process.

Is there anyway to find my old emails and email addresses (Thunderbird) from those files? Like a big dummy, I didn't bother to save the stuff beforehand.

Is it possible to transfer any of the programs from the back-up file so it won't be necessary to re-install everything?

Thanks!

 

[mikea]

Yesterday morning my main computer crashed. I was able to store some of my stuff in the back-up file before using the system recovery process.

Is there anyway to find my old emails and email addresses (Thunderbird) from those files? Like a big dummy, I didn't bother to save the stuff beforehand.

Is it possible to transfer any of the programs from the back-up file so it won't be necessary to re-install everything?

Thanks!

If you didn't reformat the hard disk.

One of the nice things about standard email like Thunderbird is it stores everything in text files.
Your mail and address book are in your profile folder.
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#backup

If you reinstall Thunderbird it should find and use your old profile if it's still there.

If you lost that, and you have been deleting mail from your ISPs server, i.e you did not select "Leave Mail on Server" then, sorry, it's gone. BTW, that can have it's own problem because the POP mail protocol is not capable of knowing what you've already seen.

Even if you did a restore that munged the disk, there are some ways to read it to get the old stuff but it's not for mere mortals. You could send me the hard drive and I'd have at it.

 

[Steve]

This, Diana, is a cosmic sign. The power of the Master/Slave Hard Disk Drive Controller has spoken.

You are to break with all past contacts and start a new life in a different country.

 

[Areeda]

You are to break with all past contacts and start a new life in a different country.

Or you just ask everyone to send you an email.

That assumes you're still talking to me after missing you on my vacation and missing Gaston's

 

[Diana]

If you didn't reformat the hard disk.

One of the nice things about standard email like Thunderbird is it stores everything in text files.
Your mail and address book are in your profile folder.
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#backup

If you reinstall Thunderbird it should find and use your old profile if it's still there.

OK, thanks Mike, I'll try that.

Even if you did a restore that munged the disk, there are some ways to read it to get the old stuff but it's not for mere mortals. You could send me the hard drive and I'd have at it.

Thanks for the offer. I'll just work with it later after I get done mowing the runways. I appreciate your help Mike.

Oh, one more question. With this latest upgrade of Thunderbird I can't get the spell-checker to work with the new version. Any suggestions?

 

[Diana]

This, Diana, is a cosmic sign. The power of the Master/Slave Hard Disk Drive Controller has spoken.

You are to break with all past contacts and start a new life in a different country.

I hope they have airplanes where I'm going!

 

[Diana]

Or you just ask everyone to send you an email.

That assumes you're still talking to me after missing you on my vacation and missing Gaston's

Joe, I wish you could have come; I think you would have enjoyed it, and it would have been great having you there. Plan now to come to next year's fly-in.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

You are to break with all past contacts and start a new life in a different country.

Yeah, like New Jersey, Texas, or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.