A friend has a MBPro with a 500 GB internal drive. He had about 16GB of free space and as the machine was not running well, he decided to move his Pictures and Movies folders to a 1T external drive freeing up 90 GB of space on his internal drive. He backed up his internal drive and the external drive to a 2T drive. His system was running Lion.
Apple did a fresh install of Yosemite on his computer as his attempt to upgrade from Lion to Yosemite via the App Store didn’t go so well and sent him home with instructions on how to restore from his backup. Using Migration Assistant, he restored from Time Machine, but he didn’t have the option to exclude his Pictures and Movies folders that were backed up. The restore seems to work with the exception of Mail failing to import his messages with a message saying “An error occurred during the import. Make sure you have available space in your home folder and try again”. As everything is working fine with the exception of the failed import- his mail accounts are working (pulling mail down), he decided to delete his Pictures and Movies folders that were restored in order to free up space again. In doing so, he now has 91 GB free on his internal drive. Can he use Mail -> File -> Import Mailboxes to pull his Mail off Time Machine backup? to try to import all his mail? When I launch the Import Mailboxes… I just get a Finder open panel. Or, can he do this by entering Time Machine (the app) on his system and then restore from backup? If so, what does he need to select in Time Machine to go back in time to restore? Should he open ~/Library/Mail and restore from that Library folder? Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
