This article describes the two operating modes for Email Recovery for Mozilla hunderbird. Both modes are designed to recover emails, but have certain differences in the technologies used.

Email Recovery for Mozilla Thunderbird is a program in the EmailAdept.com product line with maximum functionality to recover lost emails in Mozilla Thunderbird. Therefore, two modes of recovering deleted emails have been implemented at once in the utility - "Scan the email store" and "Scan the entire disk." Switching between modes is accomplished by selecting the tab on the left side of Email Recovery for Thunderbird.

"Scan the email store" Mode for Undeleting Thunderbird Emails.

"Scan the email store" mode is the most effective way of undeleting accidentally deleted emails. The need to undelete emails usually occurs after inadvertent emptying the Trash folder or carelessly removing correspondence with the <Shift>+<Del> key combination (objects are removed without first going to the Trash folder). "Scan the email store" mode means that only the message store is scanned, so undeleting emails can be accomplished quite quickly. A definite plus of undeleting accidentally deleted e-mails in general, and in this mode in particular, is the fact that it can be used not only to recover lost email, but its original location.

Before working with Email Recovery for Thunderbird in this mode, if necessary, you should select the Windows user and Thunderbird user profile from the drop down list if it is different from Default (when using Thunderbird with the option /P).

"Scan the entire disk" Mode for Recovering Deleted Emails in Difficult Cases.

"Scan the entire disk" mode is intended for recovering emails in so-called difficult cases. Scanning the disk is advisable if, for example, an analysis of the message store does not give the desired results of restoring emails or scanning the store is simply impossible. Scanning your hard drive means a thorough data analysis, so recovering emails can take up to several hours. Take this into account before you begin restoring emails.

Using the "Scan the entire disk" mode you can select analysis of a logical partition (if you're sure exactly where the lost e-mails are) or your entire hard disk, for example, to recover deleted emails after formatting the HDD or deleting a logical disk partition. When analyzing the hard drive, emails can be recovered, but not their location in the Thunderbird directory structure.

Important: Recovering emails, like any reconstruction of data, helps to reconstruct many of the lost or damaged emails, but can't guarantee that they are 100 percent identical to the original. Often, especially after formatting the drive, restoring parts of these electronic messages (attachments, text fragments, properties) is not possible.