Thunderbird Profile Gone!

[kayo]

Thunderbird:

I booted up my PC yesterday morning, as usual.

I opened thunderbird and it opened to its last know state (my inbox)

It tried to connectm but failed. No prob, Router frequently times out and needs a reboot.

Rebooted Router

Returned to Thunderbird, and closed it. Re-opened it and everything is gone it is asking me to enter a profile.

No mails at all in the client, and only collected addresses that are the newest ones I've been receiving, but none of my imported address books.

Again, no profile at all.

Cannot find userdata, profiles in explorer either, or any of that.

Any idea's?

(I can still log into my wab based email accounts as normal, but it's so nineties.)

[Tywais]

(I can still log into my wab based email accounts as normal, but it's so nineties.)

Been playing the wabbit a bit too long methinks.

Anyway, look at this location > C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles

Replace Admin with your login name. Any chance you have more then one login account on XP?

[kayo]

I haven't got that file! I've searched and searched (my thunderbird is installed on another partition of the harddrive; I can't locate it in either partition. )

I have a secondary login, also admin capable.

PS: replace "wab" in OP with "web" ! :sheepish-smilie:

Edited June 30, 2007 by kayo

[Tywais]

Try one more thing. Right click on your C: drive and select Search. Enter Mail (or Profiles) as the search criteria file name. Do the same with your other drives. If it doesn't show up with that then odds are that it is gone. Be sure Search Subdirectories and Hidden Files are checked. Also check your recycle bin (just in case).

[kayo]

alright. Thanks tywais. I'm getting back to this tomorrow. It seems my house has become host to a houseparty.

[Guest Reimar]

Nor forget to make the Systemfolder and Files visible as well because the profiles located there!!

[kayo]

Hi./

I'm sorry! I had totally forgotten that I had posted this thread.

Too much...

Anyway, I was unable, despite all of your good advice, to return my settings, so I've just started from scratch again/ A little annoying, but life goes on, and I've since moved on.

Thanks all the same gentlemen.