Mail, password, super duper

Last week I lost my phone. My passwords were all pw-protected, but yesterday I observed some odd changes on my computer, so I changed my password. I had a typo in what was written down, so I had to use the OS X install disc this morning, and reset it.
When I opened Mail, it said my index was bad. I did a Safe Boot, and that appeared to fix the problem, but now I see that past emails are missing from my various mailboxes.
I use Super Duper, so theoretically I have a good version of everything from a couple of days ago, but when I launcehd, it did not show the dates of recent backups. I think that I only need to restore Mail, but at the moment I am apprehensive about doing anything.
Can anyone offer suggestions?
Thanks,
Nicky

Hi Nicky,
have you done the usual checks? Do you know applejack ? (applejack.sourceforge.net) this is a nice command-line routine which makes all standard checks in single-user modus. You can start your comp in single-user by pressing cmd+S when booting. After this your're prompted and solicited to do the fsck (file system check) and after a successful fsck to remount your disk in write modus.
If you have installed applejack, you can make this and more check routine (i.e. Permission repair, cache clearing, fix preferences). You have only to give this command line:
applejack AUTO restart
and applejack will check/repair the FS, fix permissions, clear caches, fix preferences, remove swap files.
If this is done and you have yet the problem, you must first save/backup your data for more action.
I hope this helps
Massimo

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I have already posted in a different Topic but on this sight regarding another aspect of this operation.

I generally can get Time Machine to work for a while. It takes way more effort to get it working and to keep it working than you'd expect for a Mac.
The most recent event was when I mounted my new 500 GB Hitachi drive in a new Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini, connected with Firewire 800 to my Mac Mini Server. I formatted the drive, using the 7-pass erase in Disk Utility, with no errors. I used disk utility to verify the file system on the drive before I started using it with Time Machine.
I configure Time Machine to use that new drive, and it starts up, but pukes fairly quickly. I Googled the error messages, and found lots of other people running into the same error.
First off, the disk would not unmount. Had to force unmount it.
Used Disk Utility to Repair the file system. It encountered no errors. So, then I used Disk Warrior to rebuild the directory structure on the disk. It found some things that it corrected. Since then, Time Machine has been working on that disk without further errors (overnight).
How many Apple customers are going to want to deal with force unmounts, running disk utility and disk warrior to tickle Time Machine back into working?
These are my log entries from the most recent Time Machine errors:
Dec 30 09:42:13 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Starting standard backup
Dec 30 09:42:13 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Backing up to: /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdbDec 30 09:42:13 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Detected system migration from:
/Volumes/Christopher-J-Shakers-Mac.localDec 30 09:42:17 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Backup content size: 406.7 GB excluded items size: 34.0 GB for volume MacMini
Dec 30 09:42:17 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 447.22 GB requested (including padding), 465.02 GB availableDec 30 09:42:17 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Waiting for index to be ready (
101)Dec 30 09:42:17 MacMini mds[42]: (Normal) DiskStore: Creating index for /Volumes
/Backups/Backups.backupdbDec 30 09:42:30 MacMini ntpd[33]: time reset -0.559108 sDec 30 09:42:54 MacMini JollysFastVNC[898]: (00599870.0592)-[NetworkConnection disconnect] could not shut down writehandleDec 30 09:43:01 MacMini login[1339]: DEAD_PROCESS: 1339 ttys001
Dec 30 09:58:09 MacMini ntpd[33]: time reset -0.483469 s
Dec 30 10:00:34 MacMini kernel[0]: Dec 30 10:00:45: --- last message repeated 3 times ---Dec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (-36) SrcErr:NO Copying /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/A/DTM essageQueueing to /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER/2010-12-30-094033.
inProgress/02385079-1749-4E5A-BC4F-93367E30B581/MacMini/Developer/Library/Privat
eFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/ADec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Stopping backup.Dec 30 10:00:45 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (-8062) SrcErr:NO Copying /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/A/DTM essageQueueing to /Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER/2010-12-30-09403
3.inProgress/02385079-1749-4E5A-BC4F-93367E30B581/MacMini/Developer/Library/Priv ateFrameworks/DTMessageQueueing.framework/Versions/A
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e(34 /Volumes/Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/A3D115A8-4546-4A3B-B36E-594404 EEA098/live.0.indexDirectory, 16448) error:22Dec 30 10:06:19 MacMini mds[42]: (/Volumes/Backups/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stor
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Dec 30 10:42:35 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER size:10
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Dec 30 10:42:37 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Failed to create progress log file at path:/Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER/2010-12-30-094033.inProgress/ .Backup.315427357.871281.log.
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Dec 30 10:42:37 MacMini com.apple.backupd[2388]: Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Backups/Backups.backupdb/SNOWSERVER size:1
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It seems to me that time machine, or the device drivers it relies on, needs some work.
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thx for the answer, i've actually read that article before.
no, i didn't start a new BU sequence, as i'm totally insecure even opening terminal.
by reformatting the HD i would lose months of mail backups etc.
i did take care of periodically manual BUs of important stuff,
so now i guess i just dont get the eventual purpose of TM..
sometimes it feels sad to be lost somewhere between being a very advanced mac user and being just a newbie without a clue of how to mess things up...
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