Just 1 question. How do I get into my time machine drive? I haven't ever used shift command g and don't get drive prefixes for mac. Windows or dos, no problem but I can't work this out. Sorry for my density. I can find Ll the folders and files on my boot drive at least.
Danny. Sent from my phone On 30/10/2012, at 8:34 AM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Danny, > > I think you need to retrieve your mail preferences from your Time Machine > backup to get them organized. There's a chapter in the Take Control of Apple > Mail in Mountain Lion (or Lion, or Snow Leopard) guide on "Back Up and > Restore Your Email". It describes multiple ways to do this. There's also a > description of what files get used for different purposes. (The initial > tilde character indicates these are folders under your user account): > ~/Library/Mail: This folder contains all your mailboxes, rules, junk mail > settings and most of the other data Mail uses. > ~/Library/Keychains: This folder contains all your keychains, which store > your user names and passwords. > ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook: This folder contains your Address > Book contacts and your Previous Recipients list. > ~/Library/Preferences: This folder contains your preference files, among > which is the one Mail uses. > > I think the preference file you need from your account's Library/Preferences > folder is "com.apple.mail.plist" (without the quotes). Usually either this > file and maybe a "com.apple.mail.plist.locked" folder is present. (If your > mail is "locked" you won't be able to open it, so try deleting that folder). > When you created a new Mail with your fresh install, a default > com.apple.mail.plist file was created with none of your old information, so > you want to replace this. > > I would first try making sure that the Library/Preferences folder for your > account is back in place. You'll need to use the Command-Shift-G "Go to > Folder" shortcut in Finder to navigate to your libraries, since by default > your top level Libraries are hidden, then type or paste in the location you > want to move to. You can either first use Command-Shift-H to move to your > home directory, and then type in "Library" slash "Preferences" with no > leading characters, or you can type in tilde, slash, "Library", slash > "Preferences" into the "Go to folder" text box dialog window to move to this > library under your user account from any location. (I'm typing out the > characters "tilde" and "slash" so you don't have to read character by > character; the same principles apply to all the other folders mentioned above > -- "tilde" "slash" with no spaces between is synonymous to your user > account's home directory, as though I'd typed "/Users/danny/", if that's your > user account name.) > > I think, according to the Take Control guide, that if all the above files are > in place on your fresh installed Mac, that your mail should work as before. > I also think that you can copy them from a recent backup or clone. (I always > keep a bootable clone around for these purposes -- doesn't have to be the > latest version, but just good enough to keep a working version of your setup, > and I copy the files for keychain, addressbook, and preferences over from > there.) > > There's also a way that they describe to recover from a Time Machine backup, > but it's more involved. You have to navigate to each one of the items your > want to restore in Mail -- say, your Inbox, for example. Then you have to > start Time Machine, navigate to one of your backups, and find the items you > want to restore. Mail then creates a new local mailbox in the sidebar and > creates a folder of "Recovered Messages" within the new mailbox. You then > have to go through and reorganize things so that each of the "Recovered" > folders are in the correct place in your real mailbox. This would place > duplicates of your mailbox content on your machine, so it's really better if > you can just recover your previous configuration rather than relying on the > backup. > > I would first try to restore just the additional files I mentioned, starting > with the mail preferences file, and deleting any locked mail plist file that > may be present now in the library. > > You might consider getting the Take Control of Apple Mail in Mountain Lion > guide if you want more detailed information. It's really good for practical > things like this kind of recovery. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:07, Danny Noonan wrote: > >> Like I feared, my mbp had ml fresh installed. I copied my saved mail folder >> over the auto generated one as described and now, I have 1800 new messages, >> none of the folders they belong in, no access to 99.9% of them, no way to >> send and perhaps no way to receive and almost all menu options greyed out >> including the ability to quit mail. >> >> Not quite what I expected. Any suggestions greatfully accepted. I have the >> backed up mail folder and a time machine external backup of the old boot >> drive. >> >> Thanks, >> Danny > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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