Moved from Pop to Imap with same account but lost pop3 archive

Hello,
I switch my [email protected] from Pop3 to Imap with the same email adress . It worked perfectly. Thank you Mozilla team BUT:
1- as it is the same adress I was not allowed by TB to configure the Imap nor to reconfigure the POP.
2- so I deleted the POP account but then lost the archive which were configured by years.
I looked into my POP profile ( had made a back-up :-) ) but could not find any folders. Also search on your site but did not find the solution.
Any idea how I should proceed to retrieve my archive? Thank you

Hi Marcel,
My archived were configured by years. I had exactly followed the proposed procedure of Mozilla : [http://mzl.la/1g2pBB5 ].
I have not yet looked onto the hard drive because I do not know what to look for ( extension of file, name of file etc....) .
Kind regards, Charlotte

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