Mail-Best way to recover

Hi
I used Time Machine to Backup. I then wiped drive and reinstalled. Leopard. Not wishing to reinstall buggy apps I dragged selected files back. Everything except Mail is behaving as expected. Mail only restored 1 out of 3 accounts. When I dragged the pop accounts back in it did not bring some 3000 messages. How do i find these current messages. All the archived mailboxes are there but not the current mail.
Thanks
Enio

The best way to use Time Machine to get you old Mail back it not to restore files. Instead, you should run Mail and have the Mail window open front-most on your Desktop. Then click the Time Machine icon on the Dock to get the +flying through space+ interface. Zoom back in time until those emails exist. Then click the Restore button.

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I would like to know if there is a product or simply take to Apple?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
Apple can't recover your text for you.

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Is there a way to determine which rows in the _LT tables are belonging to the LIVE workspace?
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Ben -
Thank you - that is very helpful. Your first solution looked like it would be best.
Yesterday I looked at obtaining the LIVE version data from the source DB instance, but the drift in data content since the time the original export was done meant that the data refresh would have been fraught with risk, just as you identified.
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Last edited by wolfdogg (2012-02-24 17:52:34)

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Raw_Read_Error_Rate | Pre-fail
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Last edited by wolfdogg (2012-02-25 07:51:22)

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- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod and wifi is on and connect go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up.
- You can also wipe/erase the iPod and have to iPod play a sound via iCloud.
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[SOLVED] The best way to recover a Partition Table. (LVM)

I just did something really stupid I accidently had a typo in gdisk and changed the wrong hard drive partition table.
So before I do something really stupid I post here.
The hard drive is still mounted and I luckily have the output of the former partition table, this is it:
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Festplatte /dev/sdb: 2,7 TiB, 3000558944256 Bytes, 732558336 Sektoren
Einheiten: Sektoren von 1 * 4096 = 4096 Bytes
Sektorgröße (logisch/physikalisch): 4096 Bytes / 4096 Bytes
E/A-Größe (minimal/optimal): 4096 Bytes / 4096 Bytes
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Festplattenbezeichner: 0x00028375
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/dev/sdb1 256 366211193 366210938 1,4T 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 366211194 732558335 366347142 1,4T 83 Linux
The partition table was a LVM partition table.
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GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdb: 732558336 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): DA7956E1-B120-4F78-925A-B5DDE14E7C9C
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Total free space is 250 sectors (1000.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 256 131327 512.0 MiB EF00 EFI
2 131328 13238527 50.0 GiB 8E00 Arch
3 13238528 732558330 2.7 TiB 8300 EXT
I really hope someone can help me with that, I'm currently a total nerve wrack.
If its a more or less impossible task (well or there is no guarantee that it works) I will buy a new Drive tomorow to save the currently still mounted files.
Thank You!
[EDIT]
Forget about copying the file system isn't really accessible, I can open a few folders but everything in there are 0byte files
Last edited by theblackdog (2015-03-10 14:16:59)

So because no one gave me a answer so far (ok it's already pretty late and I was a bit imatient) I took the leap of faith and used fdisk to recreate the partition sheme, so far everything seems to work.
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I will mark the thread as solved after that.

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If you have a bootable backup (this would be a clone and safer than TM -- use free Carbon Copy Cloner or "Restore" from Disk Utility), you don't have too much to risk, since you can always reverse clone back to the Mac. Just install Snow Leopard over the current Leopard by selecting the upgrade option. Everything should still be there and I would think it would install all the correct files for its version of Safari.
Then use Software Update to see what needs updating, but run those updates separately, _or much better,_ download the standalones from Apple Downloads. You should update the OS either to the current 10.6.6 (if you don't mind having the App Store welded to your system) or to 10.6.5 using the Combo updates. The 10.6.6 has only one minor security patch and there's no emergency to install it right now.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1324
10.6.6 Combo
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http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate
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Hello,
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Way to recover corrupt .PSD's and / or .JPG's ?

I am recovering my system after a bad crash. I have many .psd's and .jpg's which are corrupt.
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My problem is as follows, I registered my printer onto ePrintCenter and set custom email address to my printer. But, I logged out from the ePrintCenter and sine that time I couldn't login into the ePrintCenter any more as the system says that the e-mail address I set for ePrinterCenter is not used in the system.
So, I have my ePrinter e-mail, is there any way to recover ePrintCenter email address by using the printer email?
Thank you, Agrifert.

Hi Agrifert,
Unfortunately its not possible to retrieve the email address you used to create your ePrintCenter account from the printer's ePrint email address. Are you still unable to log in to your ePrintCenter account? I'll wait to hear back from you before suggesting any further actions.
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Hi, Please help. I accidentally deleted my entire Iphoto Library. I used Stellar Phoenix 4.1 and I do believe that I recovered all. I recovered to "My Passport" for Mac External HD. Files are all mixed up, best way to import back?

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