{"id":212,"date":"2023-02-12T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncodenicer.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:32:29","slug":"how-to-recover-lost-email-accounts-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"How to recover lost email accounts in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is how to handle situation when Thunderbird wants to do set up from scratch after it crashed. First locate profile folder &#8211; you can do that in Thunderbird by using Help -&gt; More troubleshooting information. Once you locate this folder looks for <code>prefs.js<\/code> and possibly <code>prefs-1.js, prefs-2.js<\/code> etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turn off Thunderbird<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Backup old <code>prefs.js<\/code> (just in case this doesn&#8217;t work)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find the most recent of these <code>prefs-*.js<\/code> files (most recent in sense of modification time)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy most recent <code>prefs-*.js<\/code> into <code>prefs.js<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Start Thunderbird &#8211; if everything went well you should have all your email accounts again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how to handle situation when Thunderbird wants to do set up from scratch after it crashed. First locate profile folder &#8211; you can do that in Thunderbird by using Help -&gt; More troubleshooting information. Once you locate this folder looks for prefs.js and possibly prefs-1.js, prefs-2.js etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}