Hi Ronni Not my day No1. I meant to reply to your latest email, but my fat finger on my iPad touched the trash button instead of the reply button. Hence this earlier email.
NOT my day. I went to the iMac to reply to you: Mail is now dead - or perhaps it is the computer. I get a message “Mail cannot save information about your mailboxes because there isn’t enough space in your home folder. Quit Mail and delete any file you don’t need. Then open mail again.” The iMac is 10 days old. Capacity is 1.03 TB. Apps = 10 GB, Library = 5 GB, System = 12 GB, Users = 87 GB. Macintosh HD shows 117 GB used BUT 1.52 GB available! Now I have a system alert - run out of application memory. Had to switch off main power switch as mouse not responding. Regards Alan Sent from my iPad > On 30 May 2019, at 8:10 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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> >>> >>> > > -- 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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