restore thunderbird mail file

[Chris Aitken]

Sorry for starting a new thread (if the name is not exactly the same). 
I'm have email trouble. I was able to do the restore the way I want on a 
test file. It's an older version of the mail file. What I noticed about 
that mail file (mail.old) is that for each folder therein is a Mailbox 
file (whatever), a C source code (whatever.msf) and a folder 
(whatever.sbd). However, for the file I want to restore (mail.new) there 
is no Mailbox file (only the other two) for each folder I created. The 
only folders for which there is a Mailbox file, are things like Trash, 
Inbox - folders generated by the system. The only one that I created 
that has a Mailbox file is "holding" probably only because that is for 
the Message Filter (so, after I create it I guess i's a system file).

So, where do I go from here? I guess, for some reason, that when I've 
been doing backup in the last six months, the Mailbox files have not 
been copying over. Or maybe it's because that new mail file was one I 
created in Thunderbird (not an import from an older system). Can I 
create Mailbox files for each of my .sbd/.msf pairs? Sounds tedious. But 
possible?

Chris
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