On: G Suite Horror Story

[exikyut]

Wait. Were you able to get everything back, say from a backup?

And do you know why Thunderbird decided to do that?

[albinowax_ → exikyut]

I have no idea what caused it. This happened during my backup process so I lost about a month worth of personal emails. Definitely a nuisance but i don't think I lost anything critical.

It looks like the offline backup process needs to be:

- Download emails with thunderbird (using IMAP so they aren't deleted online)

- Then backup the local emails

- Then finally delete them from the online folder

[tempestn → albinowax_]

Or keep continuous, incremental backups of your local disk. IMO that's a good idea regardless to avoid losing stuff.

Personally I prefer to leave everything on gmail as well as the local backup though, so it's all searchable there.