"C" drive & Profile crash-so all attachments are in crashed profile? Just want to make sure?

Question

1-had C drive crash a few days ago and am rebuilding on new C drive > NEW copy of TB 24.6.0
2-Had Local Folders on a separate drive > in Tools – Account Settings – Local Folders > set to previous location
3-After studying many support responses is it correct that the actual attachments are still in the Profile on the crashed "C" drive?
4-Searched all drives on "new" system and found no "Profile" or "*.mbox" files - where are they?
Just want to make sure cause the mozmsgs/wdseml on the "separate drive" only have message text when imported. If this is TRUE then I've got to focus my effort on recovering the Profile from the crashed disk. Yes, I did not have a backup - my bad for sure.
Thank you,
Tom

Answer 1

In Thunderbird, messages are stored as they are received, along with all headers and all attachments.
In your profile, there will be folders with no extension, such as ''Inbox''. These are mailbox files. Each has an accompanying index file, in this example ''Inbox.msf''. You don't need the msf files.
The profile folder is hidden, so to find it you'll need to enable displaying of hidden files.
mozmsgs is provided just to make the message contents available to Windows' searching mechanisms, so these files are not important to your restoration task.
I really don't like the business of setting mail account folder locations using the Local Directory option. It removes the particular folder from your profile and makes maintenance very much harder, since now only ''you'' will know where the re-located data lives. None of the usual techniques or tools for working with profiles will work with the detached data.