How to recover lost local 'On My Mac' folders after Mail 6 upgrade?

The Moultain Lion Mail 6 upgrade has dropped all my local 'On My Mac' archive folders.
Any ideas how to get these back?
Best,
Keith..

Number 6 wrote:
Nice idea but one of the 'value-adds' of my Mountain Lion 'upgrade' was it broke my Time Machine backups' integrity and forced a fresh backup.
Time machine is good when trying to recover from small
incremental changes or the accidental trashing of work
data, but should really not be relied upon for any major
system changes such as an OS upgrade.
I personally don't use it at all. For data and entire home folder
for that matter, I have a backup drive and for the system itself
I do periodic clones. Actually, since I rely on coputers for work,
I also do daily backups of projects I work on.
Some one asked me once how many backups should I have.
My answer was, "Always one more than what you have."

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