Can't Restore "on my mac" mail

Hi everyone. Last night I lost some data and went to retrieve it using my Time Capsule. It was my first time doing so and through a series of errors, ended up restoring my applications folder, including the mail application. When I opened the mail application, all of my mail including the "on my mac" mailbox folders I had set up were gone. I followed the instructions in an earlier post involving the library/mail.pst folders to retrieve them but when time capsule opens, there is only an option to restore to yesterday and not any farther back. All of the other things I had messed up like my address book were able to be restored. Any help is MUCH appreciated Thank you in advance!!

Never mind. I ended up fixing it manually.

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