Importing mailboxes & messages: OS 10.2.8 to 10.4.8

I've installed Tiger on my G4, with erase and install. I tried to import my old mailboxes & (archived on an external drive and a CD, from the 10.2.8 system) using the Mail import command in Tiger. In the archive Mail folder, each mail box shows there are mbox files. The import seems to work, until the last step. The old mail boxes show up in the new Mail app, under "import." However, there are no messages in the old, imported folders. Also when I quit Mail, and launch it again, all the old, imported mail boxes are gone. I've tried to do this from the archive copy on the external drive, the CD and a DVD. Nothing worked. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

You’ve omitted two important details:
1. Which import option did you choose? It should be either Mail for Mac OS X or Other.
2. What did you select to be imported? The right choice here would depend on the import option chosen, but I believe choosing the entire ~/Library/Mail/ folder would be wrong in both cases.
Try choosing Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and select ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/ first, then repeat with each of the ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/ account folders.

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Imported mailbox messages are empty

Hi all~
So I got my computer to let me import mailboxes (with help from a nice guy at the genius bar) but now the actual messages (which is the information I need) are empty. Any ideas?
Noreen

Hi Cliff,
I haven't tried this on 10.6.x yet, so not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems in 10.4.x/10.5.x...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup

Import Mailbox Missing Some Messages

Hi,
I am trying to move my local mailboxes in Mail from a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.5 to a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.7. I backed up each mailbox on the old computer using Mailbox > Archive Mailbox within Mail. I then copied those files from the old computer to the new computer. On the new computer, I imported each mailbox using File > Import Mailboxes within Mail.
Unfortunately, several of the mailboxes on the new computer don't have all of the original messages. For example, one mailbox that has about 2000 messages on the old computer now has only about 1500 messages on the new computer.
Can anyone tell me why this happening and how to fix it?
Thanks for any help!

Thanks! This helped, but not fully.
On the old computer, I rebuilt each of the mailboxes that hadn't imported correctly. I then archived those mailboxes, copied to the new computer, and imported in Mail. More of the missing messages are now there, but not all.
For example, one mailbox had 5481 messages on the old computer. When I first moved it to the new computer, it only had 1693 messages. Once I went back and rebuilt, then archived, copied, and imported again, it now has 4129 messages on the new computer. But there are still about 1300 messages missing.
I also tried rebuilding the mailboxes once they had been imported on the new computer, but that didn't change anything.
Is there another use of Rebuild that I'm missing?

Cant import Mailboxes and Messages since upgrading to Tiger

I exported all my mailboxes and messages in Mail under Panther. I then did a clean install of Tiger erasing the HD. If I import mailboxes from Mac OSX, then it doesn;t import anything. If I import mailboxes from "other" then it imports the empty mailboxes, but there are no messages inside. Rebuild is grayed out in the Mailbox menu, so that isn't an option. I have tried manually copying the mailbox folders, but to no avail.

I just had the same problem.
Trying to upgrade my G3 iBook from 10.2.8 to Tiger was a disaster (currently in the shop), so the long awaited new computer purchase happened a bit early. I have a firewire drive backup of my entire "house" profile, including the library, with all my mailboxes under the "Mail" folder.
Started my new G5 iMac, opened Mail 2.0.5, got it working, and then attempted the import function, going to the "Mail" folder on my external firewire drive. It imported about half of the folders, and nothing is in them (the older version of mail is whatever was last supported by 10.2.8).
When import didn't work, I tried to manually copy the mailboxes from the external firewire drive into the Mail directory - best I got was the same result - not all folders, and what I got was empty.
What's the deal? I expected Apple products to have trouble reading MS stuff, but I can't read email from an older version of Apple's Mail?
Please help... seems to be a common problem, but no answer.
- Jeff

When exporting and then importing Apple Mail from one mac to another I get "Some messages could not be imported. Partially imported mailbox will be labeled IMPORT" . That mailbox does not appear.

When exporting and then importing Apple Mail from one mac to another I get "Some messages could not be imported. Partially imported mailbox will be labeled IMPORT" . That mailbox does not appear.
Any help would be welcome

This is a bug in Mail. The mailbox archiving function does not include attachments, which gives the error with the import. To workaround this you can create a mailbox in Mail and copy to it all emails you want to export. Then go in Finder to [user]/Library/Mail/Mailboxes en select the created mailbox. Copy this to the public directory of your other mac. Then start Mail on that other mac and import the mailbox from the public directory. Should work now.

Importing mailboxes (upgrade to 10.4) hangs on same message every time

I have upgraded system to 10.4.10. Opening mail for first time, I am invited to import mailboxes. Every time, it hangs on message "14,589 of 15,233". It must be a corrupt message. When I was in 10.3, it hung my mail program every time I opened my "sent" mailbox and started indexing, hanging when it reached the same message.
I narrowed down what messages it probably was, but unfortunately, when I opened the sent folder to delete, it always hung, and I always had to force quit, hence not saving my delete actions.
perhaps I can at least import the other mailboxes if I move the sent folder and complete the import process without it. anyone know where to find the old mailbox files? they do not appear in library/mail, probably because I have not succeeded in importing them from 10.3.
and any way to open these files outside of mail and remove a message without opening mail?
thanks for any help

If you already had problems when running Mac OS X 10.3, you should have fixed them before upgrading. The conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x is broken even for mailboxes that can be accessed without a hitch in Mac OS X 10.3. In your case, upgrading could only make things worse...
Here’s an example of the most common variant of this problem and how to proceed in those cases:
Just upgraded, Most of my old Inbox is gone!
Your problem, however, is different in that you don’t even get past an incomplete conversion. If Mail stalls during the conversion process, you may try to identify the mailboxes that Mail is choking on, quit Mail, move those mailboxes out of ~/Library/Mail/ (e.g. to the Destkop), and trash any Envelope Index-named files you may see in ~/Library/Mail/, so that Mail re-creates the index and tries to import the remaining mailboxes again, then manually import the problematic mailboxes as Other.
<hr>
Alternatively, you may want to set up Mail from scratch and manually import your mail back afterwards. This would allow you to use Mail normally while solving the problem of importing the old mail as you see fit:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/. Move (not copy) the entire Mail folder out of there, to the Desktop.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop.
4. Open Mail and set it up again from scratch. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and check that everything works fine.
5. You’ll have to re-configure all your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
6. Do File > Import Mailboxes and follow the instructions to import your mail from the old Mail folder that’s now on the Desktop. Import the Mailboxes folder first, then each of the POP-username@mailserver account folders, if any.
There are two ways to import Mail 1.x mailboxes into Mail 2.x. The obvious one is importing them as Mail for Mac OS X. But Mail 1.x stored mail in standard mbox format plus some additional support files, and this allows Mail 1.x mailboxes to also be imported as Other, i.e. as generic mailboxes in standard mbox format.
Importing as Mail for Mac OS X produces the best results when it works, because it takes into consideration all the files in the mailboxes, not just the mbox files where the messages are stored, and hence, allows information such as status flags to be preserved. Importing as Other, on the other hand, may work in cases where importing as Mail for Mac OS X doesn’t, because it looks at the mbox files only, ignoring the support files which is what Mail 2.x usually chokes on, but precisely because of that, information such as status flags is lost and previously deleted messages may reappear.
Hence, you may try importing as much as you can as Mail for Mac OS X, then import the problematic mailboxes as Other.
Note that what Mail asks for when importing depends on the format chosen. Mail always asks for the folder that contains the “things” to be imported. If Mail for Mac OS X is chosen as the data format, the “things” to be imported are the .mbox folders, so you must choose the folder that contains them, not the .mbox folders themselves. On the other hand, if Other is chosen as the data format, the “things” to be imported are the mbox files, so you must choose the .mbox folders that contain them in that case.
Note also that some of the mailboxes now on the Desktop may have already been partially converted to the new .emlx format during the previous (failed) attempt to convert them in place. If you tell Mail 2.x to import as Mail for Mac OS X a mailbox that already has a Messages folder, Mail will simply ignore the Mail 1.x files present there. If the mailbox was successfully converted to the new format, that’s fine, but if the conversion was incomplete, that’s not what you want.
As a result of doing all the above, some messages may be duplicated. Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that you may find useful.
If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
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How can I import mailboxes from Eudora to my new POP Mail account?

Good afternoon!
I have 10.4.11 on my Mac Mini and want to transfer my mail service from Eudora to Mail. I opened a POP account, but when I tried to import mailboxes from the Eudora Folder stored in Documents I got an Error message: No valid Eudora files were found.
I know the mailbox folder is in the Eudora Folder in Documents, so why can't Mail find it?

I'm not sure if you need Eudora Mailbox Cleaner, but you might take a look at it.
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/EudoraMailboxCleaner.html
Regards,
Steve M.

Mail stops importing mailboxes after Time Machine restore

Hello,
I replaced the hard drive in my MacBook Pro by a solid state drive (Crucial M4 512Gb) hard drive.
Before installing it, I let Time Machine backup my complete hard drive to an external USB hard drive (backup done over night).
I installed the SSD, booted the MacBook in recovery mode (CMD R), initialised the SSD using Disk Utility and restored the complete hard drive from the Time Machine Backup.
Everything fine except for Mac Mail.
If I start Mac Mail: it wants to import my mailboxes.
However, it stops at:
Importing mailbox
Imported 1112 of 1124 messages
Time remaining: Less than a minute
Then the fan comes up (high CPU load) and nothing happens.
If I cancel, the fan speed drops and Mail quits.
If I start Mail again, it reports one message less to import, thus:
Importing mailbox
Imported 1111 of 1123 messages
Time remaining: Less than a minute
I can repeat this (everytime the number of mail messages drops by one).
Problem is that I can't start using Mail until the messages are completely imported.
Anyone a tip what's going wrong and how to solve it?
As extra info: I made the Time Machine backups with nothing started on my MacBook (only Finder running).
Kind regards,
emeu1

I downloaded the mailbfr and ran
mailbfr -f
mailbfr -o
They seemed to execute fine, although the output did instruct me to login as root, which I assume is expected.
When I logged back in as the standard administrator I took a look at the log files. I see this:
system log:
Sep 13 22:15:49 fhsserver Server Preferences[17569]: The shared folder 'Local Administrator's Public Folder' has custom file system ACLs which cannot be displayed. Editing the permissions may replace any custom ACLs.
Sep 13 22:36:28 fhsserver ctl_cyrusdb[20170]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Sep 13 22:36:28 fhsserver ctl_cyrusdb[20170]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
Sep 13 22:45:49 fhsserver Server Preferences[17569]: The shared folder 'Local Administrator's Public Folder' has custom file system ACLs which cannot be displayed. Editing the permissions may replace any custom ACLs.
Sep 13 23:01:03 fhsserver imap[20454]: login: [10.0.1.202] john GSSAPI User logged in
Sep 13 23:01:03 fhsserver imap[20454]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap/user: Permission denied
Sep 13 23:02:42 fhsserver mds[63]: (Error) Server: Peer checkin failed -- no store for path '/private/var/localadmin/Public'
Sep 13 23:02:42 fhsserver com.apple.AppleFileServer[362]: MDSChannelPeerCreate: (os/kern) invalid argument
Sep 13 23:05:02 fhsserver imap[20524]: login: [10.0.1.202] john GSSAPI User logged in
Sep 13 23:05:02 fhsserver imap[20524]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap/user: Permission denied
Sep 13 23:06:28 fhsserver ctl_cyrusdb[20542]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Sep 13 23:06:28 fhsserver ctl_cyrusdb[20542]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
In the mail service imap log I see this repeating:
Sep 13 19:19:12 fhsserver imap[17664]: IOERROR: creating directory /var/spool/imap/user: Permission denied
In the Mail service smtp log is this repeating:
Sep 13 19:36:04 fhsserver postfix/postfix-script[17937]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running
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"Import Mailboxes" can't see IMAP inbox in backup Mail folder

So, a friend of mine thought he'd be efficient and, via the webmail interface, deleted all the messages in the Inboxes of two IMAP accounts (hosted by Fatcow). He did not understand that this would delete all the messages in the inboxes on his computer, too. He understands IMAP better now that we've had a talk!*
We have a backup copy of his ~Library/Mail folder, and I thought it would be a piece of cake to use Import Mailboxes to reimport those missing messages back into Mail, from where he could drag them back into the Inboxes in the cloud. Being a Mac consultant, I have done this very thing many times.
However, no matter what we do, the Import Mailboxes dialog will not offer those two inboxes in the list of mailboxes to choose from. We see all the other boxes, including two inactive POP accounts. When we look inside the backup Mail folder in the Finder, we can open the IMAP folder for each account and burrow down to the actual messages. The hierarchy there is kind of too deep, perhaps because the IMAP Path Prefix in his account preferences is incorrect--one of the accounts has the final Inbox with the messages inside another Inbox folder inside the IMAP account folder**. This is the only reason I can think of that Import Mailboxes would not be able to see those inboxes. Does anyone know if it would work if I moved the final Inbox folder higher up in the hierarchy?
Thanks very much for any assistance.
*Please don't ask why he wasn't using Time Machine. He will be, very soon.
**I can't reproduce it exactly here because I was working with him over a LogMeIn connection, as he's in another state. Geographically speaking, not emotionally.

in finder rename the backup imap inbox from INBOX.imapmbox to INBOX.mbox. then Mail will let you import it if you choose it directly when importing mail.

Can't import mailboxes when setting up

Hi,
Just upgraded to Tiger, now setting up Mail. When trying to open Mail it tries to import old mailboxes in previous version (total twenty-five thousand messages). It gets to 21492, then crashes. I can't open Mail to import manually, since whenever I open Mail, it tries to import automatically, then crashes. Hitting "cancel" at this point closes Mail. There seems to be no option to just open Mail, then import later.

Hi alletun.
The conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x is broken, but Mail crashing because of this is rare, so verify/repair the startup disk first (not just permissions), as described in the following article, in case there is some filesystem corruption that also has a bearing on this:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Now, here’s an example of the most common variant of this problem and how to proceed in those cases:
Just upgraded, Most of my old Inbox is gone!
Your problem, however, is different in that you don’t even get past an incomplete conversion. If Mail stalls or crashes during the conversion process, you may try to identify the mailboxes that Mail is choking on, quit Mail, move those mailboxes out of ~/Library/Mail/ (e.g. to the Destkop), and trash any Envelope Index-named files you may see in ~/Library/Mail/, so that Mail re-creates the index and tries to import the remaining mailboxes again, then manually import the problematic mailboxes as Other.
<hr>
Alternatively, you may want to set up Mail from scratch and manually import your mail back afterwards. This would allow you to use Mail normally while solving the problem of importing the old mail as you see fit:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/. Move (not copy) the entire Mail folder out of there, to the Desktop.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate com.apple.mail.plist and move it to the Desktop.
4. Open Mail and set it up again from scratch. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and check that everything works fine.
5. You’ll have to re-configure all your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
6. Do File > Import Mailboxes and follow the instructions to import your mail from the old Mail folder that’s now on the Desktop. Import the Mailboxes folder first, then each of the POP-username@mailserver account folders, if any.
There are two ways to import Mail 1.x mailboxes into Mail 2.x. The obvious one is importing them as Mail for Mac OS X. But Mail 1.x stored mail in standard mbox format plus some additional support files, and this allows Mail 1.x mailboxes to also be imported as Other, i.e. as generic mailboxes in standard mbox format.
Importing as Mail for Mac OS X produces the best results when it works, because it takes into consideration all the files in the mailboxes, not just the mbox files where the messages are stored, and hence, allows information such as status flags to be preserved. Importing as Other, on the other hand, may work in cases where importing as Mail for Mac OS X doesn’t, because it looks at the mbox files only, ignoring the support files which is what Mail 2.x usually chokes on, but precisely because of that, information such as status flags is lost and previously deleted messages may reappear.
Hence, you may try importing as much as you can as Mail for Mac OS X, then import the problematic mailboxes as Other.
Note that what Mail asks for when importing depends on the format chosen. Mail always asks for the folder that contains the “things” to be imported. If Mail for Mac OS X is chosen as the data format, the “things” to be imported are the *.mbox folders, so you must choose the folder that contains them, not the *.mbox folders themselves. On the other hand, if Other is chosen as the data format, the “things” to be imported are the mbox files, so you must choose the *.mbox folders that contain them in that case.
Note also that some of the mailboxes now on the Desktop may have already been partially converted to the new *.emlx format during the previous (failed) attempt to convert them in place. If you tell Mail 2.x to import as Mail for Mac OS X a mailbox that already has a Messages folder, Mail will simply ignore the Mail 1.x files present there. If the mailbox was successfully converted to the new format, that’s fine, but if the conversion was incomplete, that’s not what you want.
As a result of doing all the above, some messages may be duplicated. Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that you may find useful.
If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

Imported mailbox is not visible

Hello,
I have a problem importing messages from an old dotMac account for which I had backed up the local folders. On this forum I found the discussion below but what they recommend doing didn't work for me :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=720464&#720464
When I import the mails it says that they have been copied to a new Import mailbox but the mailbox doesn't appear! Any suggestion ?
Thanks for your help.

It isn’t entirely clear to me what it really is that you’re trying to do, as the thread you referred to refers to yet another thread that is no longer available...
If Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments (the default setting), then Mail 2.x maintains a local copy of server-stored mailboxes using the exact same format it uses for locally stored mailboxes, except the suffix of the mailbox folder in the filesystem is .imapmbox instead of .mbox.
You cannot import *.imapmbox mailboxes directly into Mail because when you do File > Import Mailboxes and choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, Mail looks for *.mbox folders only, but if Keep copies of messages for offline viewing was indeed set to All messages and their attachments when the backup of those mailboxes was made, you can easily overcome that limitation by just changing the suffix to .mbox:
1. Copy the entire account folder from the backup to the Desktop.
3. Change the .imapmbox suffix of the folders within the account folder on the Desktop to .mbox.
3. In Mail, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and follow the instructions to import the account folder that’s on the Desktop.

Importing Mail Messages with .emix extensions

Inadvertently I copied all my 8,000 older email messages into a folder thinking
I could copy the old messages into a new folder into mail on my other Mac. When I try to copy these .emix messages, it will not allow me. When I try to IMPORT these messages from mail, I cannot highlight the mail box to import.
I am able to read these messages when I open each one up individually.
Does anybody have any idea's of how I can get the 1.5gb of email messages into my new computer. I do not have any of the older plist files from the host computers library. I only have the folder with 8,000 .emix mail messages.
Help!

Rob,
I only have the folder with 8,000 .emix mail messages
If you put those messages in an correctly named folder hierarchy, Mail should be able to import them fine:
→ Import.mbox
→→ Messages
→→→ 1.emlx
→→→ 2.emlx
→→→ …
→→→ ###.emlx
(the actual numbers don't matter - no need to renumber them from what you have)
You should then be able to point Mail's import function to the folder containing the folder "Import.mbox" and in the next step can select a mailbox called "Import"
(If this does not work, you can also move the "Import.mbox" hierarchy as described above into ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and quit and restart Mail. You will then see a new local mailbox called "Import" which is initially empty. After selecting "Mailbox → Rebuild" from the menu you should see your messages appear)
Andreas

Restored OS, can't import mailboxes from previous system

Dang. I've tried every which way to get email files from the archived "previous systems" folder over to my new email library. If I try to import mailboxes, it doesn't detect valid mailboxes to import. If I literally drag and drop email files to the new inbox, the files move over but I can't see them in mail viewer. The only way it has worked is to open each old file individually (they do open and read OK) and choose 'move to' from the message menu. I can then move the file to a mailbox on the new viewer and it shows up fine. But I have thousands of old emails and this would drive me nuts.
Any input or ideas?

Hi jdlaln, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems, & I think may make the ones you moved over show up...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.

Can't import mailboxes

I'm trying to import saved messages from another mac (Mail). Mail imports the folder, and the mailboxes, but then no actual emails show up in Mail. Even if I go back and manually drag the individual emails to the mailbox>messages folder in Library>Mail, and restart Mail, the emails still don't show up. I know they are there because I can open up individual emails from the finder, and they open in mail. I've tried deleting plist files also. Thanks for any help.

You’re welcome.
OK. You’ve answered the ‘what’, but not the ‘how’. Did you choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format?
It should work. I don’t know why it doesn’t for you. Another thing you could try is converting those messages to standard mbox format using emlx to mbox Converter or Emailchemy, and import these into Mail as Other.
Most of the emails are from 2004 and 2005 so maybe that is an issue?
created in older version of mail?
No, that’s not the problem. That’s the format used by Mail 2.x.
if I drag them there manually it still will not show them in mail.
I’ve already explained this in my previous post.

Import mailboxes from OS X v.10.2.3

Previously, I was running Mac OS X v. 10.2.3. I backed up all my files on my hard drive to four DVDs. Then I reformatted my hard drive and installed Tiger 10.4.6.
But when I went to import my mailboxes into Mail, I could not find a Mail folder. Where would I import mailboxes in Mail using Mac OS X v. 10. 2.3?
Same with Stickie Notes?

I must be looking at the Library at the root level. I
am not finding any home level folders.
Isn't there a Users folder at the same level as the Library folder in the backup? The home folders aren't called "Home" at all; they are called after the username, and are located within the Users folder at the root level of the boot volume.
I am afraid that a disk is missing.
Not sure what you mean here.
I think this is a charmic message to leave the past
behind and start all new!
Or maybe a more mundane message that backups shouldn't be done blindly, as they can be wrong too. Although the following article has no bearing on your problem, you may want to take a look at it anyway:
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