My archive files have disappeared after re-installation.

I recently re-installed Thunderbird, only to find that while my four years of archives are shown on the left panel, the relevant years are EMPTY. Current archiving works fine, but I'm unable to access my previous FOUR YEARS of archives. How is this possible? What happened? And is there some way to retrieve the missing files? If not, this is very bad news for Thunderbird. I've used Thunderbird for ten years or more and nothing like this happened before. PLEASE ADVISE WHAT CAUSED THIS AND IF IT CAN BE REVERSED.
Thank you.

Hi Matt:
Thanks for your suggestion, but PROPERTIES shows all files have 0 content. Tried REPAIR, but folders remain blank. How on earth did this happen, I wonder? Archive files for 2012, 2013 and 2014 (except for two recent saves) all empty....
So it goes .....Will be more careful in future and save important files to hard disk .....
wordsmyth

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