Lost email bodies on Thunderbird: many of my emails in Inbox and Archive are missing.

Some emails disappear from my Inbox and Archives. When I try to do a search for some of those emails, I find the header and the first few words, but not the email body. I have four email accounts on Thunderbird--Fastmail, Wiscmail (University of Wisconsin) and two Google accounts, but it doesn't matter which account is used--all accounts occasionally lose an email. For awhile I tried archiving emails right away but discovered that some would get "disembodied" right away. My archives are not stored online--instead they are stored on my computer. I use Thunderbird version 31.3.0 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.

I think you have the guts of it. Which is a shame, both for you and for me as I really would like to get hold of a before and after file to see what exactly happens when the file is full. I can guess, but without evidence I just can not get the developers to fix it as no one can say for sure what happens.

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i keep loosing my emails in the inbox and i dont know how to retrieve them

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Razmee,
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