Can I rebuild my Mail and Address book from a recovered bunch of files.

Basically my Time Capsule froze while it was doing a restore so my system AND year of backups are all gone. I'm using Data Rescue 3 to glean what I can and it's doing great. Can I take what it finds and put my contacts and Mail organization (folders and such) back together again? I'm hoping I can just take a fresh snow leopard install, put a few recovered files in the right places, open Mail and viola. Possible?

horsesbreed wrote:
Basically my Time Capsule froze while it was doing a restore so my system AND year of backups are all gone. I'm using Data Rescue 3 to glean what I can and it's doing great. Can I take what it finds and put my contacts and Mail organization (folders and such) back together again?
Possibly. For Mail I'd try to restore the folder <yourhomefolder>/Library/Mail and the file <yourhomefolder>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist . For Address Book I'd try the same for <yourhomefolder>/Library/Application Support/AddressBook .
Check back if you need specific names for files in those folders.

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masked guava wrote:
My powerpc G5 Imac just died. It was completely backed up to Mozy, and I would like to restore my Mail and Address book from that machine on the new Snow Leopard machine I bought today. Is that possible?
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/users/yourusername/library/application support/address book (copy the whole folder).
star Mail and address book and they should look as they did on the old computer.

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This problem started right after a made a smart group within address book and then deleted it. Address Book and Mail will not even load now. They open but have to force quit. Address book open with 0 contacts (I should have ~300).
After searching for some help I did the following but still no luck:
Repaired Permissions via Disk Utility
Deleted com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist and com.apple.AddressBook.plist from Library \ preferences
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At this point I cannot recall what order I was doing these things but eached looked like they worked for some.
Is there anything else I can do? or a trick to the order in which I need to do them? Appreciate any help I can get on this.
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Try this - find the /Library/Preferences folder in your user/Home folder and then locate and delete this file:
com.apple.mail.plist
*Caution* - doing this may clear your account settings so be sure to note those first in the event you are required to reconfigure, etc.
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Use it if you do, then perhaps use your SL DVD and do a custom install/applications.
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I've got about 10 years of email messages current inaccessible since I upgraded to SL.....
Currently, Mail and Address book both crash upon opening.
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