Rebuild Mailbox - deleted all my emails

Hello all - I'm desperately hoping you can help me.
I have seemingly lost three years of archived emails that were stored 'On My Mac' in Mail.app
I have a mailbox (stored 'On My Mac') called Archive where I store all my read emails. I selected this mailbox and clicked 'Rebuild' in the Mailbox menu.
All my emails then disappeared.
I cannot find them anywhere on my hard drive. They also don't seem to have been backed up in my (twice weekly) Time Machine backups.
Any help you can give me will be hugely appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Washit,
you do see that the structure inside ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/ is the same as the folders inside Apple Mail?
look for the same folder inside the Library where your email disapeard and your going to see a folder with a name like this D9260F12-B465-4B3C-BFEB-601A12FB012C.noindex edit the name of the folder by taking off .noindex you should have something like this D9260F12-B465-4B3C-BFEB-601A12FB012C after that rebuild the folder, if done right you will see all the email inside that folder.

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