Had to re-install Tiger, where's my e-mail, favorites and address book

I've been having issues with my G5 so I thought installing Leopard might help, wrong! I got a blue screen that would never stop. After trying many options, I re-installed 10.4.11. That fixed everything but now I don't have my old e-mail, web favorites or address book and have to reinstall a lot of other 3rd party products. When I installed it, I used archive and install. Preserve users and network setting was not available.
I've looked in "previous system" but I can't find anything.
What do I do know?

I have the horrible feeling that the aborted Leopard install may have left a mess of your system files. If it was busy archiving them and deleting them from the system when it froze then they may be in Limbo.
In general A&I isn't recommended when upgrading OS, and very likely won't work when downgrading due to the old installer not understanding the formats of the new OS.
I don't use Mail so I don't know how it works. Probably the actual email files are still around somewhere, but you have to recognize them.

Similar Messages

Where is the data file for the address book located, I need to restore mine from backup but don't know where it is.

Where is the data file for the address book located, I need to restore mine from backup but don't know where it is to do so. Putting my Mac Pro onto icloud synching contacts resulted in duplicate and triplicates of the same cards. I have a few THOUSAND contacts and the last time this happened was on mobile me. that had a function where you could replace info on the mobile me server with info on the computer. I see no way to do that on the new cloud.

In the stupidly hidden user's Library->/Application Support/AddressBook/ labeled as AddressBook-v22.abcddb
For TM restores, see Pondini's TM FAQs for starters, since I don't use TM.

Mail and Address Book Re-Install

I'm going to format my HDD and re-install OS X.5 shortly.
I really want to do a completely clean install, so which folders and files do I need to copy on to a standalone HDD to preserve all my mail, mail settings, ical and settings and address book ?
Thanks,

I would recommend you clone the whole hard drive to an external and not just a few selective things. use CCCloner or Superduper for that. Otherwise you can easily miss something important.
See this link on where various important data is stored.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507

Installed Thunderbird on New drive but can't transfer emails and address books drom old drive to new PC.

I have a computer I built that my dad who uses Thunderbird for his email. We had to remove the C: drive, which was a SSD drive because it was running out of space and replaced it with a Western Digital Veloci-Raptor 500GB drive. I am not familiar with Thunderbird and did not export his emails or address book before I switched the drives. I have set his new Thunderbird account to keep the mails on the server and not the PC. How can I get the old emails and address books from the old hard drive. I did copy the Thunderbird folder from the C: drive and the folder on the E: drive that Thunderbird was installed to. I have read many forums on how to move emails and address books to or from Thunderbird but non are like my situation. Hoe can retrieve the emails and address books from the previous install and transfer them over to the new PC once I have done a reinstall?

first the old drive... the location varied between windows versions but it is either in Application data or appdata. In vista and above open the roaming folder. Both are hidden folders so you need to show hidden files and folders in Windows. Within that you will find a Thunderbird folder.
The sub folders of that are the profiles, but simply copying the Thunderbird folder over it's like in the appdata\roaming of Vista and above will replace the existing with the old.
Copy the actual profile in the folder called profile XXXX.default xxxx being a random string will place two profiles on the hard disk which can be opened individually using the profile manager. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager
Finally individual folders of mail can be moved using the import export tools. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/ You just need to locate the data. Folders are a file with no extension and another with the same name and an MSF extension. They are in sub folders of mail in the profile.
Address books. see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_address_books_between_profiles

Problems with outlook and address book contacts: my outlook contacts had around 3,000 entries. Outlook duplicated by itself and now outlook and address book have each over 340,000. What should I do?

Problems with outlook and address book contacts: my outlook contacts had around 3,000 entries. Outlook duplicated entries and have now 340,000. I reinstalled microsoft office and, thus, outlook, and reinstalled mac OS X system and applications. While I managed to delete outlook contacts so that I can re-sync with my blackberry, the contacts at Mac Address Book were not deleted and still have over 340,000 entries. I do not mind deleting all contacts since I have back up, but I have not been able to delete them. Also, when I go at Address Book and try to delete or merge duplicated entries, the system takes forever and never ends because of such large amount of entries. Worse, when I do so I run out of RAM memory.
My Macbook pro is just 2 months old.
What should I do? Is there a way to delete my Mac Address Book without having the problem above?
Many thanks
Regis

zlatan24 wrote:
For solving out troubles connected with corrupted or lost address book you may use address book recovery. It owns various features such as restoring wab files, it working under any Windows OS. The utility has modern and easy to use interface due to almost every experienced users.
If it is a windows problem it's not going to run on the OP's MacBook Pro

Since I'd installed the new version of iTunes, iCal and Address book do not sync with my iPhone 3GS through iTunes anymore and I get an error message stating that iTunes can not sync with this iPhone. Was must i do to correct this issue?

Since I'd installed the new version of iTunes, iCal and Address book do not sync with my iPhone 3GS through iTunes anymore and I get an error message stating that iTunes can not sync with this iPhone. Was must i do to correct this issue and if i must, how dI reintall iTunes without loosing my content?
P.S. I am able to sync postcasts and music though!

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3125
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357

Mail and Address Book crash right after installing SL

Installed on desktop and all worked perfect - love it!
Installed on laptop (MacBookPro) and now Mail and Address Book crash at launch. I have removed the mail plist and the address book files indicated here elsewhere and nothing works. Any ideas????

Fixed it. Created a new account, put my exchange mail on Mail on that account, sync Address Book with server, took the Sources folder and moved it to Address Book in Application Support onmy main account and now all work great. A lot of work but is now working. Thanks to all!

After installing the Maverick upgrade my Apple Mail search and flags no longer work correctly?

after installing the Maverick upgrade my Apple Mail search and flags no longer work correctly? I've already rebuilt the mailboxes with no change in the problem. What else can I do???

Hi as2020,
If you are having issues with Mail in Mavericks, you may want to make sure you have updated to the most recent release. You may find the following article helpful:
OS X: About Mail Update for Mavericks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6030
Regards,
- Brenden

I have Outlook 2011 installed on my Mac Pro, but I can not install it icloud. I can only get through imail, iCal and Address Book in Mac native anyone know teach me how to work with Outlook 2011 icloud? thank you

I have Outlook 2011 installed on my Mac Pro, but I can not install it icloud. I can only get through imail, iCal and Address Book in Mac native anyone know teach me how to work with Outlook 2011 icloud? thank you

"iCloud requires iOS 5 on iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation), iPad, or iPad 2; a Mac computer with OS X Lion; or a PC with Windows Vista or Windows 7 (Outlook 2007 or 2010 or an up-to-date browser is required for accessing email, contacts, and calendars). Some features require a Wi-Fi connection. Some features are not available in all countries. Access to some services is limited to 10 devices."
From here > http://www.apple.com/icloud/

Mail: Where are email messages and address book saved?

Good morning.
I would like to backup both emails and the address book in Mail.
Where are these located on my harddrive?
Thanks for your time.

Hi Again Bruce,
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
For Address Book, quit AB...
Files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
Folders...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/

Upgrade to 10.8.2 lost ical,ichat and address book. Where did they go?

A recent os upgrade to 10.8.2 has left my desktop without ical, ichat and address book icons. Question marks reside where they use to be. i'm unsure how to procede.
Thanks for any help on this.

Well, first, of course, in Mountain Lion they're called Calendar, Messages and Contacts. So if you search, use those terms (however, searching using "iCal" etc should still locate them).
But the first thing to do is check in your Applications folder. Open a Finder window, click on your Applications shortcut and look for them there. You can drag them from that folder to the Dock to make shortcuts.
If you can't get there, try using Spotlight (the magnifying glass icon at the top right of the screen). You can launch the app from the result list in Spotlight then, when it's running, right-click on the icon in the Dock and click Options - Keep in Dock to pin it there.
Matt

Where are my archived email and address book?

For other reasons (couldn't open web pages) I did a MS Recovery where it claimed my personal data would be spared. Some aps would need to be reloaded but the data should remain.
I have been using Mozilla for a few years (great program, BTW) and had created an address book and had folders of received email that I had archived according to family member.
Since the recovery step completed I have re-installed Mozilla. It is working and has pulled new email from my EarthLink account. I'd like to now re-install the address book and my archived email folders assuming they are truly still around.

Windows will not preserve the following during a refresh:
Desktop applications that are not included with Windows. These are typically applications that you downloaded from the Internet or installed from a disk. This includes any anti-virus programs, games, or other applications you may have installed. To make it easier to reinstall your applications, a file will be created on your desktop listing the applications that were removed.
I doubt the Thunderbird profile has been preserved, otherwise Thunderbird would have picked it up after being re-installed.
Be more careful the next time, and make sure to create a backup of your profile on a regular basis.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Backing_Up_and_Restoring

Older version of Thunderbird suddenly updated itself to 13.3.0; where are the contents of my Personal Address Book - HELP!

Last night my old old version of Thunderbird suddenly updated itself to Ver. 13.3.0. I've finally fixed it to show my messages, but under "personal address book" there are no contents (and I had a lot of contacts). I back up my Profile files every night so I know which files are involved, but WHERE in the the Ver. 13.3.0 do I point it to see my collected contacts. I must admit that the "old" version of Thunderbird was very old (perhaps 7.6.0?) but I have had no need for any of the changes since the so have not updated; BTW, I do not like 13.3.0 as everything seems to be hidden. I cannot "export" from the old Thunderbird to the new version because I now don't have the "old" version. I cannot "import" from some other email program as I was using Thunderbird and I can't find any files in my Profile with the extensions mentioned in the "import" wizard. I hope someone can help me who understands where the secrets are hidden in the Profile files. Also, the information in the "Profile Manager" article don't seem to apply to my computer (Windows 7 Pro) so I wasn't able to pursue that. I'm not a programmer but I was really enjoying the older version of Thunderbird and hope someone can help me get my contacts back. Thank you so much.

This would be totally unsupported. . .
I suspect that the format of how PAB is stored would be incompatible with what Mozilla wants.

Problems opening mail and address book after install

Ok I just reinstalled Leopard (erase and install after making backup with superduper).
When I open Mail I get the message:
+Mail can’t open because its index is read-only.+
+This file is located in Michael MBP:Users:Michael:Library:Mail:Envelope Index. If this file is on your computer, use the Get Info panel in the Finder to change your permissions for this file to “Read & Write.” If this file is located on a network server, contact the server administrator. After your permissions are changed, open Mail again.+
ok so when i go to that "envelope index" file it is about 6.3mb, when i check permissions, system and everyone are already read & write, there is also an (unknown) option that says read only but won't let me change it. if i move the "envelope index" file to the desktop and try to open mail, it creates a new envelope index file, but one that is way smaller, like 220k, and then nothing happens at all, mail just sits there, and i have to force quit it.
also when i try to open address book, it bounces on the dock for a second, then closes.
please help! i have to install on 2 more macs still

I've had the same problem. There are usually two or three envelope index files (envelope index; envelope index-1; envelope index-2, etc.). Envelope index-1 is always the one that has me, as the user, as read/write. I trash the other files and open Mail again. It then tells me that it has to import mailbox and that usually takes two to three minutes. Sometimes it then opens, but often it will say headers are damaged and to quit and re-open. It imports the mailbox again and stays open until I have to close or restart and then we start the process all over again. I've tried repair permissions, but no help. Very annoying.
Message was edited by: desulliv

ICal and Address Book not launching after OS? X Lion Install

I am running a late 2008 MacBook 2.0GHZ Dual Core Mac and have just upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard.
Everything is working fine except when I try to open either iCal or Address Book it is telling me that their is an error and asks me to report it to Apple.
Apparently these are 2 of the most changed core apps on Lion, yet I cant even open them yet
What can I do?

If you're trying to start the applications from the Dock, try starting them from the Applications folder.
Sometimes folks have relocated the previous applications outside of the Applications folder where they will not be replaced by the Lion install.

Had to re-install Tiger, where's my e-mail, favorites and address book

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for