Lost email and address book at same time

My toddler messed with my powerbook (not sure what he did exactly) and I had to relaunch the finder to be able to quit. When I restarted I found that my Safari bookmarks were gone, my dock was reset, Mail had no accounts, all addresses were gone, etc., etc. I've been able to restore some saved mail (but not the inbox) but all addresses seem to have vanished. To make things worse, I lost my 10.3 disks in a move last year. Help?

GalenK,
The symptoms you describe are indicative that your toddler may have renamed your Home Folder.
If that is the case, Recover from renaming your Home folder, by Dr. Smoke may be helpful.
;~)

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Is there a way to recover old emails? I moved a few folders around on the hard disk and now my emails have reverted to Factory settings and all my old emails and address book have vanished. I am still running on 10.4.11 and Apple can not help me.

Is there a way to recover old emails? I moved a few folders around on the hard disk and now my emails have reverted to Factory settings and all my old emails and address book have vanished. I am still running on 10.4.11 and Apple can not help me. Does anyone out there have any idea on how to recover my lost emails and/or addresses?

Well, your profile info says 10.4.11, and you are posting your question in the iMac (PPC) category. If you are running Snow Leopard, it must be a fairly recent Intel iMac.
In that case, you should definitely post your question here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard
where other Snow Leopard users can see your question. Restate the problem, what error messages you get, and what you have tried already (for trouble-shooting).

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

Email and address book help

Since i downloaded leopard i've had trouble with email and address book.
1. when i receive some emails from people it will say it is to someone else instead of me my address will be there with someone else's name. i go to the address book and my email is listed as one of theirs. after a while it will change to another persons name. this is weird. and i cannot seem to get my email sound when receiving mail. everything worked fine until that darn leopard came about. any ideas? thanks.

Sorry, that's not a Firefox support issue. Try Windows Live Support.<br />
http://windowslivehelp.com/product.aspx?productid=1

Can't delete email AND address book changes randomly

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Secondly, my address book will randomly change the card names. I can go in, correct, save, close and the next time I open the address book some of them will be different. For instance one card is titled "Lexington". It has changed to "Lexington Lexington" several times or it will pick up the name of the last person in Lexington and show up as "Lexington Lastinger"

What sort of email account is this, POP or IMAP? What version of Mac OS X are you running; your profile says 10.3, but if that's true, then you're way behind the times and in the wrong forum. We need accurate information in your profile, so you need to update that.
Secondly, my address book will randomly change the card names.
No, this is not random. Mail and Address Book communicate, so when you receive an email from someone in your Address Book, if the name doesn't match the email address for that card, it is updated with the name in the email address.
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Lost Mail and Address Book ikons from HD

Preparing to upgrade to Tiger OX 10 from Panther. Recommended backup all vital info. In transfer process, both Mail and Address Book ikons from HD to backup Superdisk repeatedly came up Error 50. Only success was to lose both ikons from HD and Question Mark on Address Book in dock rendering it useless. Now have Mail and a Mail copy ikon on Desktop that will not open. Likewise an Address Book ikon and four copies on Desktop that will not open. Fortunate that Mail ikon in Dock still operates allowing acess to Mail and Address Book on Mail site.
Would like to move forward. Help for an average computer user would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the delayed response to your e-mail. Thank you very much for taking the time to addressing my problem.
After posting the question the hard drive further deteriorated to the point where the computer became inoperative. Ended up with a new computer and a major challenge in transferring info from old to new computer. After a long day with two friends and computer programmers by day, we succeeded in retrieving and transferring the info. Whee!
Thanks again for taking the time to address my question.

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

Transferring Netscape email and address book to Tiger

How do I transfer old emails from Netscape to Tiger/Safari?

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
I have transferred mailboxes, but will have to research whether I bothered with the Address Book info or not. Also, I think I may have done this from an earlier version of Netscape -- again would take some research, if still available, and that old computer is stored.
In the Mail folder from Netscape, you should find the various mailboxes, listed by name, and in Tiger their Icon will be sort of a black rectangle -- do you have these? This will be the file WITHOUT the extension .snm. If you take one mailbox and place it in a folder xxxx, and rename the file so placed to be simply "mbox" (without the quotes), and then rename the folder to be xxxx.mbox, you can then import it as a Type Other mailbox, I believe.
Do this mailbox at a time. Or alternatively, prepare each one, as above, and after quitting Mail, open the Mail folder in a Finder window (Home/Library/Mail) drag them into the Mailboxes folder of the Mail folder for Tiger, and furthermore delete the Envelope Index file at the first level of the Mail folder, and relaunch Mail. Mail will say it is ready to import your mailboxes, but allow this to continue, and Mail will really only be re-indexing all the mailboxes, including the ones from Netscape. After you have confirmed the mailboxes can accessed, quit Mail again, and in the Finder open Mail, and Mailboxes and then open each xxxx.mbox folder -- you will find the file Info.plist and a Messages folder, along with the original mbox file. The latter is no longer needed, but first compare the size of the Messages folder with that of the mbox file.
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Group email and address book transfer

I am a new mac user so clueless about most things: two questions
Is it possible to transfer my compuserve address book to my mac account?
If not, I was trying at least to transfer group emails: in other words, to cut and paste the emails from my group, create a new group account in MAC and paste. But after creating "group" in mac, I could not access the folder or find where how to paste addresses under the group.
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Reinstalling the Mail.app rarely resolves any problems with the application.
All Mail.app account settings are stored in the Mail.app preference file which is not deleted and recreated new when deleting and re-installing Mail so if the SMTP server setting problem is with the preference file, deleting and re-installing Mail will be a complete waste of time and effort on your part which doing so usually is anyway.
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If other, are you also accessing an email account and SMTP server provided by your ISP used for connecting to the internet with Mail and if so, any problems sending messages with this account and SMTP server?
Most ISPs and email account providers have sending limits/restrictions for non-business email accounts. Some have a total recipient limit per message along with a total number of recipients limit for all messages sent in a 24 hour period. Some only have the latter which can be reached or exceeded with a single message.
And lastly -- when I put a group email name into my Mac Mail,
it changes it from the group to the entire list of anyone that is
in the group! Not cool! And it has never done this before either...
Go to Mail > Preferences > Composing. What is your setting under Addressing for "When sending to a group, show all member addresses"?

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You can install both your accounts in Thunderbird and then simply move messages from one to the other. You then have the choice to continue using Thunderbird, or to switch using Gmail via its own website.
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What is the best way to switch to Thunderbird from Incredimail (old emails and address book)?

I'm feeling trapped in Incredimail. What is the best way to move over to Thunderbird? I'd like to keep my old emails, attachments and the address book as well. Is this possible?
I've seen the program "PCVARE IncrediMail Converter" at www.pcvare.com/incredimail-converter.html#dl.
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I have a corrupted version of Entourage and it was suggested I go to Mail. I was also told migration from Entourage was a 'snap'....where do I get detailed steps (what manual) to do this migration? I want to move existing mail, (inbox, sent mail,etc)and my address book.
If it's in fact a 'snap' maybe the instructions can be included in any repsonses I might receive...??
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I just got my blackberry curve 8310 2 days ago. I set up the emails, and I'm receiving them on my phone, but they are not showing up at all in my AOL inbox. Not even in the old mail section.
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What to do?
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Welcome to the forums.
Do you have an AOL icon for that mail? Are the messages showing up in the main Messages icon (your new mail should show in BOTH the AOL mail and the Messages icon. Are you able to send email from your device?
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Matt, thanks for the response. The page you pointed to didn't help directly, it seemed to be referring to a much older version of Thunderbird? In any case, it did push me back to something I'd tried earlier and failed, with the nett result that I now have my old mail back. So, thanks to you for taking the time to answer, and thanks again for pushing me in the right direction.
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