Functionality of Thunderbird Fix It

Recover accidentally deleted messages

When the user deletes a message, Thurderbird marks the message as "deleted" but does not actually delete it until the user (or, Thunderbird by itself) "compacts" the folder that contains the message. So, in some cases, it is possible to recover messages that you have accidentally deleted. Select the folder you would like to undelete messages from and press "undelete" to undelete all the deleted messages in this folder. Before proceeeding, please make sure you have backed up your local folders directory.

Thunderbird Fix It will scan the selected folders for messages that can be recovered and will display a dialog (see picture below) for you to select individual messages. Recovered messages will be placed in a new, timestamped folder inside the folder that orifinally contained them.

No backups are created during recovery of deleted messages because the original Thunderbird folders are not affected in any way.

Remove attachments from storred emails to save disk space

You can use this program to remove attachments from all your storred emails. If you no longer need the attachments, this will save you a large amount of disk space and will speed up loading of your messages in Thunderbird.

When the user selects a folder and presses the "Remove attachments" button, Thunderbird-Fix-It will scan the folder for attachments. A dialog box will then be displayed for the user to select individual attachments to be removed. Removed attahcmnets will be permanently deleted and replaced with a text inside the message that notifies the reader that the message contained an attachment which was removed.

Backups of all affected folders will be created according to the options.

Find and Remove duplicate emails

Thunderbird allows you to store duplicate copies of the same email, even in the same folder. With this option you can find and eliminate duplicate emails, freeing up precious disk space and, most importantly, tidying up your local folders.

Backups of all affected folders will be created according to the options.

Compact Specific Foders and their subfolders

When the user deletes a message, Thurderbird marks the message as "deleted" but does not immediately delete it. Thunderbird folders are periodiacally compacted in order for "deleted" messages to be actually deleted and to save disk space. If you wish you can manually compact a single folder within Thunderbird by right clicking on the folder's name and selecting "compact". This program allows you to easily compact all your folders or a single folder with all its subfolders with only a few clicks.

Backups of all affected folders will be created according to the options.

Backup your local folders

This option will backup your messages in a zip file which will be placed in the directory defined below.

Delete Thunderbird and Windows index files

Thurderbird stores message indexes in files with the .msf extension. In very rare cases indexes may become corrupted and then you may have to delete them so that Thunderbord recreates them from scratch.

The .mozmsgs directories store data that allows Windows Search to index your mail messages. They are automatically recreated when the computer is idle if you have specified so in the Thunderbird Options.