Hi Alan, You mentioned in your original post to the list that: >> I Used Migration Assistant to copy all data from Time Machine. The backup >> has been erased. And the original iMac hard drive has been erased as well. If that is the case you don’t have a ‘backup’ that you can use to restore the original Mail Mailboxes & their messages from.
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 30 May 2019, at 6:24 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Ronni > > Thank you for your comments and suggestions. > > To clarify the problem, all four mail accounts are OK and appear in the Mail > Sidebar, with their respective sub folders Sent, Spam and Trash. All > accounts are online. Missing from the Sidebar are previously created > Mailboxes such as Personal, Financials, Bills, etc. Most of these mailboxes > had sub folders, eg the Bills mailbox had Water, Gas, Electricity etc. I > don’t recall having any active Smart Mailboxes. > > It seems the actual original mailboxes and their content have gone. Yes, I > can drag a greyed out mailbox off the bar and it disappears. Yes, I can > create a new mailbox to display in the sidebar and can then drag a copy to > the bar. > > Web blog sites that suggest that missing emails can be recovered seem to be > promoting commercial software without giving anything more specific about how > to do a recovery! > > I have one untested Time Machine backup. The original iMac had its disk > erased and macOS reinstalled and is no longer available. I have the use of a > very unstable MacBook Air that might accept selective restoration from Time > Machine. Do you think this is worth trying? Or just accept that the emails > cannot be recovered. > > Cheers > Alan > > > >> On 29 May 2019, at 4:42 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Alan, >> >> My replies in Situ below in colour: >> Before attempting any of my suggestions below, I would suggest you backup >> first. >> >>> On 26 May 2019, at 12:24 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> All personal mailboxes in the Favourites bar are greyed out on a new iMac >>> (27 inch 5K with Mojave 10.14.5). I Used Migration Assistant to copy all >>> data from Time Machine. The backup has been erased. >> >> When you ‘Add a mailbox’ to the The ‘Favourites Bar’ by dragging the mailbox >> from the Mail Sidebar, Mail doesn’t actually move the mailbox; it adds an >> alias for it to the Favourites bar. >> You could have lost your link to the server. >> Check the Mailboxes you dragged to the Favourites Bar from the Sidebar are >> NOT Disabled? >> Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts tab - check they are all online. >> >> If all accounts are online & you still have the Favourites mailboxes greyed >> out. >> Drag the greyed out mailboxes out of the bar and they will disappear, then >> drag new ones from the sidebar to replace them. >> >>> >>> I Rebuilt the inbox for my main mail account but this made no difference. >>> ~/Library/Mail/ contains V5 and V6 folders. >> >> The V5 folder is used by High Sierra. >> Before doing anything, make sure you have a current backup. >> 1. Quit Mail and move the V5 folder to the trash, but don't delete it. >> 2. Open Mail and verify everything still works OK and all your messages are >> there. >> Once confident everything is OK, you can empty the trash. >> >>> >>> I normally move mail from my Inbox to the Favourites mailboxes. I have >>> mail archives (outside the Mail app) up to December 2017. The Mail “Sent” >>> folder holds all (?) messages from 2017. >>> >>> Can I recover my Favourites mail history? >>> >>> Regards >>> Alan >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> >> macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 >> >>> -- 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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