Deleted account from Mail but messages remain on hard drive
I am trying to clear space on my old macbook before passing it off to my wife. I am running Maverick. In mail I deleted 5 of 6 mail accounts I had. But when I ran Grand Perspective, all GBs of the stored emails from those accounts are still there. How do I get rid of them? 3 accounts were Gmail. All were IMAP.
Thanks for the help.
Create a clone on an external disk with either SuperDuper or CCC. Then erase your old MacBook, re-install the system. Then, the first time you boot in Setup Assistant, you'll be prompted to migrate. Migrate from the clone and only choose to migrate Applications.
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I'm having some difficulty with Time Machine. It appears to be deleting backups from random dates on my external hard drive. I am not deleting them. Are they hidden and how do I prevent this from happening? Can I retrieve them?
... I didn't know that Time Machine was more a last resort back up instead of main back up.
Don't rely upon Time Machine to the exclusion of all else. I compliment Time Machine with a periodic "clone". TM is much better than nothing, but it's a safety net, not a hammock
Here is my understanding of Time Machine's file deletion algorithm, distilled from Pondini's FAQ, Apple's KB articles, and my own observations.
Time Machine deletes ("thins") files from the backup disk as follows:
Hourly backups over 24 hours old, except the first backup of the day
Daily backups over 30 days old, except the first backup of the week
Older backups get deleted when Time Machine requires space and you deleted them from the source disk.
Therefore, assuming TM has been performing at least one backup per day, backup files will remain available:
at least thirty days, if they existed on your Mac for at least a day
until you run out of space, if they existed on your Mac for at least a week
In addition to the above, Time Machine always keeps one complete copy of your source disk so that the entire volume could be restored if necessary. Any files that remain on your source volume will be present on the TM backup, no matter how old they are.
If you are using 250 GB of space on your source disk, its Time Machine backups are likely to require at least twice that much. A good estimate of the minimum required backup volume size would be about three times the size of your source disk - 1.5 TB in your case.
A more thorough explanation would require Pondini since he has plumbed Time Machine's mysteries far more than I have.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427 -
Have deleted a Yahoo account from Mail but it keep asking for password
My Mail on the iMac has several email accounts for my wife and I, we have recently deleted my wifes Yahoo account because of spam mail, as well as deleting it through Yahoo, the email account in Mail was removed. Ever since we have been receiving prompts for the password to the deleted account. I have checked through preferences and there is definitely no reference to the account. Is there something else I need to delete?
thanks mende1 - I have lion and have checked as you have mentioned above - the email account is not listed there - it's still asking for the password though
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Migrate one account from multi-user laptop to new hard drive
Hello - I aologize if this has been asked/answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it.
I have a MacBook unibody whose hard drive is reaching capacity; plus I am giving it to my daughter to take to college.
I am "upgrading" the machine with an internal SSD, a larger HDD, and making the optical drive external.
I want to move *just her account* to the new SSD. The new SSD isn't much bigger than the curren internal drive, so I want to put her Music, Movies, and Pictures on a 300 GB HDD partition and use the remaining 200 GB paritition for Time Machine backups.
I know this is a lot of things. I don't think I have any questions about how to do this physically -- I bought all the accessories from OWC, including an external enclosure for the optical drive and their USB to eSATA (etc.) connector to dupe the existing drive to the new drive.
The problem is that it's not a simply "duplication" issue. I don't want a clone of the old drive. To further complicate things, my daughter's current account is not an administrator account, and it needs to be an administrator account on the new drive (it's the only account that will be on the new drive.
"OLD" LAPTOP "NEW" LAPTOP
My account (administrator) N/A
Wife's account N/A
Sister's account N/A
Target Daughter Account Yes, as administrator
Her files Yes, all of them
Photos, Movies, Music --> new internal HDD, 300 GB partition
Documents --> OK to be on SSD
Time Machine 200 GB partiion, new internal HDD
Applications Virtually all of them
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So -- am I making this waay to complicated? Should I just install Lion on the new internal drive, set her as with a new administrator account, and then drag the files I want into the locations I want? Do all the files associated with the Home folder have to live on the same drive?
Any help, much appreciated.It's a lot to consider, but the short answer is that Migration Assistant or Setup Assistant will do what you want. Setup Assistant may be easier in your case. In any event what you propose sounds like a good idea.
My first question is how do you intend to connect the various drives. If you install the SSD and leave the MacBook's internal HD in place, that would seem to be the simplest thing to do. Install Lion on the SSD, then, boot from it. A new installation of Lion will call Setup Assistant to initially configure her user account and migrate data from her existing account - you will choose the option to migrate from another hard disk. You can choose the user account from the existing installation, and Setup Assistant will permit you to choose what to migrate. If you have the space, migrate everything, since you are about to remove the existing hard disk drive (if you do not have sufficient space, you will need to remove the existing HD and use it externally, since you will need to install the larger, empty one first).
Make sure you check the box to allow that user to administer the computer. It might be a good idea to promote her account to Administrator before starting any of this anyway.
Next, remove the existing HD and install the larger, empty one. Boot the MacBook, log in under her account, partition and format the HD using Disk Utility.
Drag her entire Pictures, Music, and Movies folders to the data partition. When you launch iTunes (for instance) hold the Option key. That will cause a prompt to appear asking you to locate her iTunes Library. Select the one on the designated partition. Repeat for iPhoto.
Make sure that all her photos and music appears as expected. Once you are satisfied it's working properly you can delete those folders from the SSD.
Next is Time Machine but after all this work that ought to be easy enough to figure out.
I hope this makes sense.
There are other alternatives including using Carbon Copy Cloner or the equivalent to clone the existing HD to the SSD, then deleting the accounts you do not need. It's up to you to determine if that is simpler. -
Boots from disc, but doesn't recognize hard drive
I've got an 800mhz G4 iMac and it won't start up. It boots really slowly into the blue screen and then never passes that point. It's just a blue screen. I can move the mouse around, but nothing else happens and there's nothing for the mouse to manipulate.
It will boot from the optical drive and I'm trying to reinstall Panther (can't find Tiger upgrade discs...blast). But when it gets to the point in the installation where it asks which drive to install on, it gives me no options.
Is the HD dead? Anything I can do? Thanks for all your help in advance.Try things in Apple doc.#106464 for your startup issue.
Also, try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption. Smokes link will help walk you thru it. You will need the Tiger disk to do this if you have Tiger installed. If your Panther disk is a 10.3.9 version, it will repair a Tiger installation. 10.3.9 only though.
Let us know what errors DU reports and if it was able to repair them.
Try these things before a re-install. You can try things in Apple doc.#106214; run fsck-you can run a repair with out the disk this way.
Cheers!
DALE -
Delete songs from playlist, library and off the hard drive at the same time
I have playlists full of captured radio streams that I keep briefly for discovering new music. But periodically I want to clean them out. I know I can delete the files from the playlist, then go in and delete the song from the main library, and the authorize iTunes to go ahead and move those songs to the trash. But since these songs are nice and efficiently grouped by playlist, I want to have the option to delete the songs from the playlist and at the same time remove them from the main library and move the actual files to the trash. Any way to do this?
I know the idea is to keep you from accidentally deleting your original song files just because you want to take them out of a playlist, but I want the option to get rid of them all together.Answered: Select the song in the playlist, hit command-option delete, and you'll get a dialog box with the option of leaving the song in the main library or moving it to the trash.
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How to delete account from list of senders in new message window
Hello. I would like to know how to remove a particular email account from the list that is available in a new message window in the "Account" field (right below subject field) which lists email addresses of the sender. I deleted one of my email accounts from Mail but the email address for it still shows up there as an option and is in fact the default option each time because it was my main choice before I deleted the account from Mail. Now I have to change this each time I send a message and it is getting annoying, but I don't know how to get rid of the old address from the list. Anyone?
mikate,
Open Mail>Preferences...>Composing>Addressing: Send new mail from: (Choose the correct address).
If that is unsuccessful, also open Address Book and then check the card with your name in the "Name" column. If the old address is listed in that "Me" card, click the edit button and remove it.
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I deleted a pop email account from mail. How can I recover those sent messages without Time Machine?
I deleted a pop email account from mail. How can I recover those sent messages without Time Machine?
Thomas,
"Note that you were warned that this would happen and approved it. When you delete an e-mail account in Mail, you are shown a message like the following:"
You didn't read my problem - I said I deleted a POP email account. I always read the messages that pop up and in Mail when you delete a POP account - IT DOESN'T TELL YOU NUTHIN! It just deletes it - which *** for me. Fortunately, I had an iPhone and on that device I had about a 1000 messages that I could recover but on all my POP accounts I download them from the server onto my Mac so they were only on Mail (the really old ones that I wanted to keep.) I had to move them into another directory one by one basically because when I would move 50 some of them would move and some wouldn't and I never did figure out that problem. Basically the ones that would not move are the ones that were associated with my domain changes with GoDaddy, and there were a lot of those. Have no idea as to why only those were resistant to moving but I can get all that data from GoDaddy anyway.
This thread is now moot seeing as how I've recovered everything I can and am going to just move on - and back up more often. ;-)
Apple and Mail need to rewrite that program to include a WARNING MESSAGE when deleting an Account in Mail that says ALL YOUR MESSAGES ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR NEVER TO RETURN IF YOU DELETE THIS ACCOUNT, SO YOU DANG WELL BETTER HAVE A BACK UP IF YOU WANT TO KEEP ANYTHING BEFORE PRESSING THAT MINUS SYMBOL! ;-) -
Unable to sync iPad to iMac. Get message 'iPad can't be synced because not enough free space to hold items in iTunes Library'. Only major content is iTunes U stuff (lots of videos). Don't download any music or other videos to iPad.
Deleted iTunesU content on iPad and unticked iTunes U from syncing on iMac but message remains.
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How can I change the default email account from which my messages go, without having to change it each time I draft a message? It currently assumes an email account that I rarely use. Thanks.
sorry, but I can't find the mail preference in the latest Yosemite OS. Do you know where I can find it?
Thank you
Don -
I can't delete my comast pop account from mail
I've deleted the account from mail and don't see it anywhere, but i repeatedly get asked by mail to enter my username and password. I've looked in preferences in both mail and system preferences but don't see the account. The account no longer exists with comcast because we switched to another service. Any suggestions?
Delete you iCloud account and then recreate.
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I've set up my Gmail account to auto forward messages to iCloud Mail but message are not being received in iCloud Mail.
Can anyone help?Try this out... this worked like a charm:
*On a desktop PC, log into your gmail account.
*Click the gear up in the top right corner > Settings
*Click Accounts
*Under "Change Account Settings", click "Other Goole Account Settings"
*Along the left, click "Security"
*Under 2-step verification, click "Manage your application specific passwords"
*It will ask for your usual gmail account password and take you to a page that says "
Authorized Access to your Google Account
*You will see a box to type in something (I just typed in iPad) then click "Generate Password"
*It will generate a random password for you... you will need this password Once in your iPad....
Now...
*Go to your iPhone Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account>Google
*Type in your name, your usual gmail email address and for the password, type in that random one generated on your PC
It should work from there, if not follow what is below!
*On a desktop PC, log into your gmail account.
*Click the gear up in the top right corner > Settings
*Click Accounts
*Under "Change Account Settings", click "Other Goole Account Settings"
*Along the left, click "Security"
*Under 2-step verification, click "Manage your application specific passwords"
*It will ask for your usual gmail account password and take you to a page that says "
Authorized Access to your Google Account
*You will see a box to type in something (I just typed in iPad) then click "Generate Password"
*It will generate a random password for you... you will need this password THREE TIMES in your phone or ipad....
Now...
*Go to your iPhone Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account>Other>add mail account
*Type in your name, your usual gmail email address and for the password, type in that random one generated on your PC
*Next
Incoming Mail Server:
Host Name: imap.gmail.com
User name: (your gmail email address)
Password: TYPE IN THAT RANDOM PASSWORD AGAIN
Outgoing Mail Server:
Host name: smtp.gmal.com
User name (your gmail email address)
Password: TYPE IN THAT RANDOM PASSWORD AGAIN
Done
And allll the emails came rushing in Hope this works for you! -
how can i delete my gmail account from mail and add aol, how can i delete my gmail account from mail and add aol, how can i delete my gmail account from mail and add aol
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
To delete a mail account in Mail, open Mail, and go to Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts. Then, select the account you want to remove and press the - button.
Then, press the + button to add the AOL mail account -
Cannot delete accounts in Mail.app
Title states the problem. I cannot delete accounts in Mail.app whether in the Mail preferences or Internet Accounts tab of the System Preferences. I have dead e-mail addresses and when I click the minus, in Internet Accounts, the account flashes off and comes right back, complete with a fancy little animation. When I do it in Mail, it tells me "The operation couldn't be completed." and I should try going to Internet Accounts.
How do I purge these accounts from the system? I've already deleted the mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/V2.
Thanks.Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take the action that isn't working the way you expect. Select any lines that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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My gmail accounts receives mail, but will not send, reply or forward. Also cannot open settings. It gets stuck in spin mode.
I worked with an apple tech, tried several things, and then she suggested I contact Mozilla support.Hey Butterworth,
You may need to use the information in this article to help you troubleshoot the issue with your outgoing server:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden
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