In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:17:02AM +0800, Rod wrote: > Does anyone know how to retrieve lost emails in OS X Mail? I have a > Mac that has had the Mail Database repair run, and 12,000 emails > disappeared!
I would first inspect the file(s) found at the following UNIX path(s): /Users/<username>/Library/Mail/<e-mail account name>/<mailbox name>.mbox/mbox If you want to use the Finder to do this (as opposed to the command line), go to the Finder and choose "Go to Folder..." from the "Go" menu. Then, enter /Users/<username/Library/Mail When you see the 'mailbox' icons for folders ending in ".mbox", use Control-click to get a contextual menu and then choose 'Show Package Contents'. Next, switch to list view so you can see size of the mbox file. Mbox files are plain text and contain all messages in sequential order. (Note: the mbox files may be very large if there are many e-mails.) I would check to see if all the messages are still there.
