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> On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everybody's familiar with how to open up a finder window, go to Time Machine, > and restore files into it. But there is a less-known mode of time machine > which is more Baroque (but cool), in which you go into an actual application, > like Mail or iPhoto, and ask it to restore its contents from a backup. If you > don't mind restoring your mailboxes one by one, just open up mail, then enter > Time Machine, then tell it to restore whatever you want from whatever date > you want. Thanks. So restoring mailboxes and data from a backup of Mail on Lion will be restored properly to Mail running on Yosemite? K > > > >> On Apr 2, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone 5S >>> >>>> On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 >>> >>> After writing the above, I'm thinking that maybe pointing to the library >>> mail folder and trying to restore won't work because his back up his mail >>> was running on lion and he needs to import those so that Mail on Yosemite >>> can do it's magic on the files. ???? >> >> I would like to think he can simply open his ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder and >> then launch Time Machine to restore that folder, which includes his >> accounts, mailboxes and mail data. >> But in doing so, would Mail do the proper “import” given that his backup is >> Lion Mail and he would be restoring to Yosemite Mail? Is there any risk in >> doing this? >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> >> >> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MacOSX-talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
