Can't restore mail from Time Machine
We had a power failure last night and when I finally restarted my iMac, I found 99% of my Inbox was gone. When I attempted to restore it from Time Machine, I got the following notification:
"Mail" can't be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OS X.
I have restored it before without this problem. I would appreciate any assistance.
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Can't restore email from Time Machine
I am running 10.7.2. When I try to restore emails from Time Machine by making Mail the active application and entering Time Machine, nothing happens. I do get a message that Finder is not responding.
I don't have this problem if I am trying to restore contacts from Address Book or files from Finder.
I have checked the TM disk, and there are no problems. I have also repaired permissions.
Any suggestions? Thanks.Here is the output:
Marker - Dec 6, 2011 10:16:19 AM
Dec 6 10:16:49 MarvinsNewiMac Mail[564]: *** Assertion failure in -[MailToolbar _forceInsertItem:atIndex:], /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-1138.23/Toolbar.subproj/NSToolbar.m:1309
Invalid parameter not satisfying: index>=0 && index<=[self _numberOfItems]
0 Message 0x00007fff86991a93 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 116
1 Message 0x00007fff86991c29 -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 185
2 AppKit 0x00007fff895bfabe -[NSToolbar _forceInsertItem:atIndex:] + 163
3 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf895 -[NSToolbar _insertItem:atIndex:notifyDelegate:notifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 121
4 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf5d0 -[NSToolbar _insertNewItemWithItemIdentifier:atIndex:propertyListRepresentation:notifyFlags :] + 118
5 Mail 0x00000001074cde2e Mail + 2309678
6 UnsubMailPluginMailAppOSX 0x000000010ad5ce9f -[UnsubscribeBundle usurpToolbarDelegate:] + 642
7 UnsubMailPluginMailAppOSX 0x000000010ad5c66b -[UnsubscribeBundle anyToolbarWillAddItem:] + 84
8 Foundation 0x00007fff8d478de2 __-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_1 + 47
9 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85153e0a _CFXNotificationPost + 2634
10 Mail 0x00000001072a06c5 Mail + 26309
11 AppKit 0x00007fff895c32a5 postNotificationAndNotifyDelegate + 227
12 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf9fe -[NSToolbar _notifyDelegate_WillAddItem:atIndex:] + 217
13 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf880 -[NSToolbar _insertItem:atIndex:notifyDelegate:notifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 100
14 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf5d0 -[NSToolbar _insertNewItemWithItemIdentifier:atIndex:propertyListRepresentation:notifyFlags :] + 118
15 AppKit 0x00007fff8998493a -[NSToolbar _setCurrentItemsToItemIdentifiers:itemIndexToPlistDictionary:notifyDelegate:not ifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 350
16 AppKit 0x00007fff895be799 -[NSToolbar _setConfigurationFromDictionary:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:upgradedConfigura tion:] + 431
17 Mail 0x00000001074bf01c Mail + 2248732
18 Mail 0x00000001074be94b Mail + 2246987
19 Mail 0x00000001074b2b9e Mail + 2198430
20 Mail 0x00000001074f696b Mail + 2476395
21 Mail 0x00000001074f6ef8 Mail + 2477816
22 Mail 0x0000000107463301 Mail + 1872641
23 Mail 0x0000000107464324 Mail + 1876772
24 Backup 0x00007fff8ca937a4 _Z22HandleStartTimeMachinePK6AEDescPS_Pv + 413
25 AE 0x00007fff8e783c25 _Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPS_jPh + 200
26 AE 0x00007fff8e783b03 _ZL25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS_ + 38
27 AE 0x00007fff8e7839f7 aeProcessAppleEvent + 250
28 HIToolbox 0x00007fff86c20b6d AEProcessAppleEvent + 102
29 AppKit 0x00007fff8933963d _DPSNextEvent + 1247
30 AppKit 0x00007fff89338cf5 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
31 AppKit 0x00007fff8933562d -[NSApplication run] + 470
32 AppKit 0x00007fff895b480c NSApplicationMain + 867
33 Mail 0x0000000107372d88 Mail + 888200
34 ??? 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2
Dec 6 10:16:49 MarvinsNewiMac Mail[564]: *** -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:]: index 3 beyond bounds [0 .. 0]
Dec 6 10:16:49 MarvinsNewiMac Mail[564]: (
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff851ab286 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8b8bad5e objc_exception_throw + 43
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85152108 -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:] + 296
3 AppKit 0x00007fff895bfb31 -[NSToolbar _forceInsertItem:atIndex:] + 278
4 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf895 -[NSToolbar _insertItem:atIndex:notifyDelegate:notifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 121
5 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf5d0 -[NSToolbar _insertNewItemWithItemIdentifier:atIndex:propertyListRepresentation:notifyFlags :] + 118
6 Mail 0x00000001074cde2e Mail + 2309678
7 UnsubMailPluginMailAppOSX 0x000000010ad5ce9f -[UnsubscribeBundle usurpToolbarDelegate:] + 642
8 UnsubMailPluginMailAppOSX 0x000000010ad5c66b -[UnsubscribeBundle anyToolbarWillAddItem:] + 84
9 Foundation 0x00007fff8d478de2 __-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_1 + 47
10 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff85153e0a _CFXNotificationPost + 2634
11 Mail 0x00000001072a06c5 Mail + 26309
12 AppKit 0x00007fff895c32a5 postNotificationAndNotifyDelegate + 227
13 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf9fe -[NSToolbar _notifyDelegate_WillAddItem:atIndex:] + 217
14 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf880 -[NSToolbar _insertItem:atIndex:notifyDelegate:notifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 100
15 AppKit 0x00007fff895bf5d0 -[NSToolbar _insertNewItemWithItemIdentifier:atIndex:propertyListRepresentation:notifyFlags :] + 118
16 AppKit 0x00007fff8998493a -[NSToolbar _setCurrentItemsToItemIdentifiers:itemIndexToPlistDictionary:notifyDelegate:not ifyView:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:] + 350
17 AppKit 0x00007fff895be799 -[NSToolbar _setConfigurationFromDictionary:notifyFamilyAndUpdateDefaults:upgradedConfigura tion:] + 431
18 Mail 0x00000001074bf01c Mail + 2248732
19 Mail 0x00000001074be94b Mail + 2246987
20 Mail 0x00000001074b2b9e Mail + 2198430
21 Mail 0x00000001074f696b Mail + 2476395
22 Mail 0x00000001074f6ef8 Mail + 2477816
23 Mail 0x0000000107463301 Mail + 1872641
24 Mail 0x0000000107464324 Mail + 1876772
25 Backup 0x00007fff8ca937a4 _Z22HandleStartTimeMachinePK6AEDescPS_Pv + 413
26 AE 0x00007fff8e783c25 _Z20aeDispatchAppleEventPK6AEDescPS_jPh + 200
27 AE 0x00007fff8e783b03 _ZL25dispatchEventAndSendReplyPK6AEDescPS_ + 38
28 AE 0x00007fff8e7839f7 aeProcessAppleEvent + 250
29 HIToolbox 0x00007fff86c20b6d AEProcessAppleEvent + 102
30 AppKit 0x00007fff8933963d _DPSNextEvent + 1247
31 AppKit 0x00007fff89338cf5 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
32 AppKit 0x00007fff8933562d -[NSApplication run] + 470
33 AppKit 0x00007fff895b480c NSApplicationMain + 867
34 Mail 0x0000000107372d88 Mail + 888200
35 ??? 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2 -
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Restoring Mail from Time Machine onto a different Macbook
My 2008 MBP died given the well known NVidia video card problem. Since Apple called my MBP an "antique" and any service or warranty due to the video card issue is expired, I'm left with a heavy paperweight.
I'm not in a position to buy a new MBP currently but I'd like to at least restore my Mail archives and folders from Time Machine onto my Mail on my 2011 MBA. Can I get some tips on the best way to do this?You could restore your mails from TimeMachine back up with Migration Assistant.
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Restore mail from time machine
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SteveSometime the Library folder are hidden and you cannot see it.
Try this:
Press and hold down the Option key.
Pull down the Go menu in Finder.
Select Library.
You can now release Option.
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Cannot restore Mail from time Machine - permission problems
I am running Lion 10.7.2 and mail 5.1 (all software updates applied)
I know there is a fair bit referencing similar problems but I cannot find my solution.
I inadvertantly deleted a mail account and simply wish to restore the account from my time machine backups.
Time machine has been reliable in the past and my put my faith in it. However this problem now introduces a fair bit of mistrust which should never happen with a backup system.
I navigate to ~/library/Mail/V2 and then open time machine and select a known good backup (I hope).
I highlight the time machine account folder I want to restore and select "restore".
Time machine starts the restore normally but very quickly comes up with this mesage -
"The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “.mboxCache.plist”.
(I am logged on as admin)
I have repaired permission on my HD to no avail.
I assume that the message refers to the time machine file but any attempt at changing permisions on the time machine backups fails as "not permitted" (I would not be surprised at this anyway as I dont know how the time machine file system works).
I then copied my complete mail folder to another disk and deleted the original and tried to restore the complete mail folder from the time machine backup.
A similar permissions error message occurs but on a different file.
I am getting nowhere and am rapidly losing faith in time machine - I totally rely on it.
Can anyone help please.I deleted the account using mail preferences, so following your advise:
I restored the pref file from the good known backup date.
I also used disk utility to repair the time machine backup volume which showed no problems.
First of all, restoring from time machine according to FAQ 15, the actual messages in the deleted account were indeed restored to the new mailbox that time machine created and could be viewed - that is fine and solves the problem of lost mail.
Almost solved - but what I was trying to do was :
I had two accounts which show under inbox and when you "get mail" the little whirling indicator shows activity which my wife (and I) liked. After I deleted the second (now unused account) there is no more indicator when "getting mail" and it is not obvious that anything is actually happening. Any mail received will show up under mail activity but if there is none we all just sit there with no feedback until it "beeps".
There was also the other issue of maybe wanting to get back all mail for the deleted account (which you solved).
I can of course recreate the account as a new one but I thought time machine would be able to restore the mail system back to where it was (as it should) - it seems it may not be able to which is not nice as in "what else will fail one day that I dont know about". To restore "as was" is why I tried to restore just the "missing" folder in ~/library/mail/v2 but keep running into these permission problems.
Time machine was the best backup system I have seen in over 30 years in computing but if it now "doesnt" under all circumstances it becomes useless and we will have to go back to manual or other backup systems. Surely Apple will fix it - a backup and restore system has to completely reliable or not at all.
I thank you for your help and, as I say, there is no real urgency as mail items can actually be recovered - it would be nice to be able to restore "as it was" however. -
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Can't restore folders from Time Machine after Lion
Hello guys,
after upgrading to Lion 10.7.1 I can't seem able to restore some old folders from Time Machine
Here's what happens: I log in TM, I can scroll through my old backups, I can choose the folders I want to restore, I can click on the folder, but when the systems tries to restore it, it stops saying that I don't have the privileges to access file A in the folder (and then all the procedure is stopped).
Oddly (at least for me) if I try to restore just that same file A (and not the whole folder) that I should have no privileges for, from the same old backup, I can do it, but I have to give the system my password: It pops up a window saying something "Finder is willing to make some modification, can you authorize?" (forgive i'm translating the alert from another language) and then I can restore it.
Has anybody else this problem and how can be solved?
Many thanks
Ps: I did a simple upgrade on Lion, no partition, no blank disk, and never changed anything in my user preferences, it's always the same, administrator
Pps: Before Lion I could restore easily exactly the same folders and files I tried to restore with Lionwrongusername wrote:
But if I transfer everything with the Setup Assistant, won't I once again be experiencing the problems I had?
If the problems were caused by your data. But that's extremely unlikely. It may have been an app, or, much more likely from your description, something corrupted in the Leopard OS. That's one of the problems with upgrading a sick system without knowing what or where the causes are. It's a bit like a brain surgeon operating on himself: if he isn't in tip-top shape to start with, his condition is likely to change, and not for the better.
Most of us would have recommended first simply doing a +*Repair Disk+* on your internal HD; if that didn't help, installing the "combo" Leopard update; if that didn't work, doing an +Archive and Install+ and re-installing the "combo."
After a clean re-install of Snow Leopard, my Mac worked fine again (except for the TM trouble). So it probably had something to do with my old files.
Probably not. Much more likely OSX was somehow damaged. And you got a whole new one.
How come I could read the files on my external HD and yet not be able to copy the files?
Time Machine uses special "deny everybody everything" permissions on it's backups, among other things, in an attempt to keep us mere mortals from moving, changing, or deleting things and corrupting them. -
Can't restore files from Time machine backup?
I kinda successfully restored my files from Time Machine after a clean re-install of Snow Leopard (Time Machine thought they were new files, though, so backed up the 26 GB... waste of space), but now I'm trying to restore the files of the other user on the computer. In her pictures folder, I can't copy the iPhoto Library because I don't have permission to access it! The same problem occurred on my account too, but I was able to go to my Time Machine drive and manually change the permissions for the files I wanted, which doesn't work on her account.
I have made a Youtube video of the error:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__PdyAetVg
Can anyone assist me in restoring the files? That's all I need help in. Thankswrongusername wrote:
But if I transfer everything with the Setup Assistant, won't I once again be experiencing the problems I had?
If the problems were caused by your data. But that's extremely unlikely. It may have been an app, or, much more likely from your description, something corrupted in the Leopard OS. That's one of the problems with upgrading a sick system without knowing what or where the causes are. It's a bit like a brain surgeon operating on himself: if he isn't in tip-top shape to start with, his condition is likely to change, and not for the better.
Most of us would have recommended first simply doing a +*Repair Disk+* on your internal HD; if that didn't help, installing the "combo" Leopard update; if that didn't work, doing an +Archive and Install+ and re-installing the "combo."
After a clean re-install of Snow Leopard, my Mac worked fine again (except for the TM trouble). So it probably had something to do with my old files.
Probably not. Much more likely OSX was somehow damaged. And you got a whole new one.
How come I could read the files on my external HD and yet not be able to copy the files?
Time Machine uses special "deny everybody everything" permissions on it's backups, among other things, in an attempt to keep us mere mortals from moving, changing, or deleting things and corrupting them. -
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Hi can I restore the data from iCal from time machine?
The data is in ~/Library/Calendars
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I can not restore folders from time machine
installed a new HD per apple tech and email from apple. now i can not restore any folders from time machine to the new HD. i have been working on this for hours and hours. Please help
See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.
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When I moved to Lion I had to reconfigure my mailbox and all previous folders disappeared. How can I restore them? I have backip of everything in the Time machine but cannot find the folders and do not know how to import them when I do.
Thank you so muchSe the blue box here:
http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/15.html
Regards,
Colin R.
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