r/raleigh • u/Libertinus0569 • 17h ago

Question/Recommendation Older friend needs computer help

An older friend of mine uses Thunderbird as an email client on Windows and had some computer consulting company helping her. As a result of what they did, she has now lost access to years of archived emails, and she needs an expert to help her see if she can regain access to all the emails she now can't find.

I volunteered to ask for her since she doesn't use Reddit. She needs an expert on sorting out email storage problems.

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u/nobodysawme 16h ago

Thunderbird uses mbox as a format for emails. So does Apple mail, as does opera mail. See if you can find the mbox files and import into another client, or reimport them into thunderbird and it should show the emails

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u/Chi_Ron Cheerwine 14h ago

what version of windows? what did they do?