[Hidden-tech] Lost 2008 email from Thunderbird 2.0.0.16

[Stacy Kontrabecki]

My Dell laptop with XP on it has been cranky about waking from 
hibernation when I lift the lid.  It often is a minute before anything 
shows on the screen, but most times it's a few seconds.  I couldn't get 
anything so I tapped the power button, which sometimes pops the image on 
the screen and I'm OK.  The other times it shuts down the PC in a bad 
way.  After today's shut down I open to Thunderbird to see my Inbox with 
mail as recent as July 07, but nothing new.  There are new emails that 
have been filtered into my INbox subdirectories that still exist, but 
nothing in just the Inbox.

So I have 2 problems - the biggest being

Where can I find 2008 new email?

The bigger Q is Why do I get these hibernate lockups that require nasty 
manual power button intervention?  I've had similar issues twice already 
this year where my Inbox has been totally relocated to some cryptic 
place on my hard drive that takes a 2nd party and hours to find - never 
relocates to a logical place.  I just need to start from scratch with 
this PC, but haven't done so yet.

Help me find my email!

Stacy