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clean installed lion now missing mail messages

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Davidsilence

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Oct 3, 2005
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Brighton UK
So i did a clean install of lion on my Macbookpro which seems to have sorted out slow down.
I migrated my last time machine backup, mail re-imported my messages but when i go to one of my accounts there are only today and yesterdays messages is there any way of reimporting older messages off my backup
thanks
 
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Davidsilence said:
So i did a clean install of lion on my Macbookpro which seems to have sorted out slow down.
I migrated my last time machine backup, mail re-imported my messages but when i go to one of my accounts there are only today and yesterdays messages is there any way of reimporting older messages off my backup
thanks
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Did you restore the mail preferences file (I think it is com.apple.mail) from ~/Library/Preferences in time machine backup?
 
I re-installed Lion last week. To restore Mail.app messages I just copied the content of ~/Library/Mail folder from TM to my HD. On the next launch, Mail asked me for the passwords of my mailboxes and my messages/RSS feeds were where they used to be
 
restring mail

problem is my Library folder is invisible on my TM backup I just made it visible in terminal but it doesn't reveal it on my bkup. any ideas? thanks
 
If I'm not wrong, asking Finder to show hidden files&folders should also force TM to show them. Try to use the following command in Terminal.app:
Code: 
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
and then
Code: 
killall Finder

I can't try it right now because I'm not at home but it should work.

When you are done, just re-issue the same commands but change "TRUE" with "FALSE"

Let me know if it did the trick ;)

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Just tried on another Mac - I can confirm that it works, hope that helped ;)
 
Rebuild the indexes in Mail. This fixed it for a coworker yesterday.
 
Davidsilence said:
problem is my Library folder is invisible on my TM backup I just made it visible in terminal but it doesn't reveal it on my bkup. any ideas? thanks
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On the menubar click on Go while holding down the option keyboard key, select Library. Click on Enter Time Machine from the time machine icon on the menubar. Simply go through the time machine backup and do the restore of the approprate file(s).
 
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