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[turps]

I had to restart my computer earlier, and when I opened OE all my in box was gone, as well as a load of my folders. I have one email just now. My folders for the last five years of SeSas, gone. The folders I keep personal mail in. Gone.

It's not a total disaster as I have dupes of the mails at the web based account. But I'm talking about 60,000 emails stored there, all unorganised, spam, personal mail, years worth of LJ comments. I've found the dbx files on my computer, but I'm stuck at how to get the info back into OE.

I'm googling like crazy, but thought I'd ask here too.

ETA: Mira gets a gold star!

Comments

[stellamira]

Hm, maybe make a new identity and try to import it there?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

YAY! You're awesome. My folders are back! Sadly the in box is downloading over 59000 mails, but I can cope with that.

Thank you!

[stellamira]

Yay! I'm happy that it worked.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

fantastic! I'm so glad you got it back! (I've had a similar thing happen with Thunderbird, but I know how to fix that now. - still - six years of loving filed email and sent mail!)

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I was so pleased when the folders came back. I have so much saved, thinking it was gone was horrible.

Though I could do without the downloading problem.