Hi Ronni, Thanks. That worked after a couple of tries! Though I had monumental problems with permissions on the backup files. My husband is very happy as he now has all the mail with his PhD supervisor back!
Thanks for your help. Cheers Rosemary Rosemary Spark PO Box 781 South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia Phone: + 61 8 94336609 Mobile: 0414268043 arkaysp...@gmail.com On 1 August 2015 at 10:21, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > How to manually restore your Mail folder from Time Machine: > > You'll only hope of restoring his mail is following the instructions from- > > "To get around this, you will have to restore your Mail data folder > manually, along with the corresponding Mail preferences file, which can be > done by first quitting Mail and then performing the following routine:" > > It is quite involved so print the entire instructions from Step 1 > < > http://www.macissues.com/2014/12/07/how-to-manually-restore-your-mail-folder-from-time-machine/#comments > > > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > > On 1 Aug 2015, at 9:23 am, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > To add to the Mail query i.e. how to recover Mail from Time Machine where > do I look for the mailboxes? > > Macbook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013) > Yosemite 10.4 > > Rosemary Spark > PO Box 781 > South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia > Phone: + 61 8 94336609 > Mobile: 0414268043 > arkaysp...@gmail.com > > On 30 July 2015 at 11:11, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When my husband's MacBook Pro started acting up ( filing up his space >> between one moment and the next despite moving vast amounts of pictures. We >> restored permissions etc) ) We took it to the Apple genius store where we >> were advised to re- install Yosemite on an empty drive which they did for >> us. Then we copied over the user's file and re- installed Applications. >> The Apple Mail would not receive mail ( despite repairing permissions >> etc) so I deleted his account and then re- installed Gmail account on the >> system. Even though I thought I'd saved his messages from his Inbox in a >> new folder ..somehow that got deleted and he's lost all his Mail >> messages that weren't in Gmail. Now he wants me to go back to an earlier >> version. >> >> What is the best way to restore Apple Mail from his Time Machine backups? >> >> Thanks >> Rosemary Spark >> >> >> -- >> Kind Regards >> Rosemary Spark >> 0414268043 >> arkaysp...@gmail.com >> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >
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