Draft Folder, text of messages is gone. Second attempt.

[andrew]

I posted the below question on 10/9/17 but didn't get a response so am trying again.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm a little desparate as I need to recover the messages in my Draft Folder that Enigmail seemingly ate.
Thanks.

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I installed Enigmail a couple months ago as I needed encryption for a series of emails.
It worked fine. However there was one strange thing I'd notice occasionally; when opening a draft message in my "Drafts" folder, there would be no text in the message ....for anywhere from 5 to about 15 seconds. Then after this time period, magically the text of the draft would appear.

This always bothered me and yesterday when I no longer needed encryption, I uninstalled Enigmail.
Now when going to my "Drafts" folder, all my drafts are there but when opening them, there is no text. The body is just blank.

This may seem a minor issue, and probably would be for most people, but due to how I use my "Drafts" folder I have many, many draft emails with information I need.

I back up my computer daily via Acronis however the last backup was done before Enigmail was uninstalled.

Any idea what's going on here and how I can get my drafts back? I need this info.

Thanks,
Andrew
Windows 7 and Thunderbird 52.4.0, 32 bit.

[Patrick Brunschwig]

If you did not delete your keys (which is not related to uninstalling Enigmail), the only solution is to reinstall Enigmail, and then change the setting in your account options to not encrypt drafts.

Re-edit all of your drafts, such that they are saved unencrypted.

If you also deleted your keys, there is no way to recover your drafts.