Thunderbird mailboxes vanished

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YuryG

After some update of mail/thunderbird I've lost folders of my installed mail accounts. Now when I start a thunderbird I get a screen to enter a mailbox credentials just like there was no previous installation. And no mail in folders tab. But I had plenty and some thunderbird directory is still present in my home folder and looks good as always. Is there any way to return my folders?
 
Rod Myers said:
open a terminal and type the following; ls -la ~/.thunderbird what does it show?
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> ls -la ~/.thunderbird
total 40
drwx------    3 yury wheel   512 12 Aug  2019 .
drwxr-xr-x  122 yury wheel 27136 27 Nov 00:44 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 yury wheel   335  1 Aug  2009 appreg
drwx------   15 yury wheel  3072 26 Nov 15:17 ggo5dwav.default
-rw-r--r--    1 yury wheel    45 12 Aug  2019 installs.ini
-rw-r--r--    1 yury wheel   166 12 Aug  2019 profiles.ini
 
All your stuff is probably in ggo5dwav.default, poke around there and check to make sure. As to how to reconnect it to Thunderbird's profile system, I would defer to someone else.
 
msplsh said:
All your stuff is probably in ggo5dwav.default, poke around there and check to make sure. As to how to reconnect it to Thunderbird's profile system, I would defer to someone else.
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Thank you, I am aware of that. I even backed up this directory. I can see names of my email accounts etc. One more interesting thing is that Address book is O.K. in Thunderbird, I can see its contents, but mail folders vanished.
(Why's that and) how to make it work again?..
 
What I've done in the past is to move the profile directory, create a new profile, and then rename the old one to the new name and move it back (deleting the new, empty one).
 
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