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A few months ago malware hosed up my Windows (XP) and I copied all my data and programs to another hard drive, which is now my drive E:. How can I get all my old email back? In what file(s) or folders is it actually stored? I looked in the old Application Data folders but found nothing on Thunderbird like this tutorial mentioned. When I loaded Thunderbird from my E: drive it didn't seem to find anything either. Is there any hope for recovering my old email? Thanks...

Try: E:\\Documents and Settings\\<Windows XP user name>\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Thunderbird\\Profiles\\<Profile name>

If it isn't in there, then you probably didn't copy it and recovery is extremely unlikely after this much time.

Just make sure you set explorer to show hidden files and folders.

No Mozilla folder anywhere. Sigh...