I accidentaly rebuilt my mail program

i accidentaly rebuilt my mail program and when i realized i did this, i paniced quit the program half way into the rebuild. as a result i lost half of my mail. i know that this was a very stupid thing to do, but i'm wondering if anyone out there knows how i can recover my mail. any help will be well appreciated.

hello
I did something yesterday and have not found anyone to help me. iIt may not possible but I am not ready to give up.
I have a Mail folder called : hearts.
I renamed it, with 2 '**' in front of 'hearts'.
(The asteriks bring the folder to the top of all folders, which I do to prioritize.)
Then I thought to change the folder name to Hearts, with a capital H.
That's when it all went down.
All of a sudder there are two folders titled 'hearts' and 'Hearts'.
They both have all the subfolders that were originally there. The only difference was that on letter 'h' , lowercase and uppercase.
And one more difference, which NO one at Apple can explain.
One folder (the 'hearts) was white, while the other was blue, like all the other mail folders.
I decided I don't need both, and it would get confusing fast, so I deleted the white one.
IT deleted, as well as its subfolders...but SO DID THE SUBFOLDERS FROM THE OTHER FOLDER, "Hearts"
Is there any way to retrive these subfolders?
I've purchased the data recovery software...no luck there.
Thought I'd try this route.
I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Thanks Kjmal

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