Restore mail from backup?

I screwed up. About a month ago I deleted a Mail account I no longer was using. I was careful to insure that my Inbox preserved all the received mail. Silly boy, I just discovered I'd lost all my Sent Mail, which I did not intend. I have a (at least partial) backup on a hard drive. It's backed up in SuperDuper. How do I put that file back into my Mail app so that it adds to the Sent Mail that I've sent since the disaster, and doesn't overwrite the most recent files? Painful... Thanks in advance for any help.

Mail stores most preferences and all account settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. Everything else, including all your messages and mailboxes, is stored within the ~/Library/Mail/ folder. Restoring these from the backup (with Mail not running) should be all you need to do.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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Restoring mail from backup

Is it possible to restore my mail exactly the way it used to be in case something happens to my HD?
What if I want to do it with a new mac?
Cheers!!!

If I understand what you want to do, try making your user library permanently visible, selecting it and then enter Time Machine. This does work with Mountain Lion.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/22/access-user-library-folder-in-os-x-lion/
Works for me.

Had 3G, moved to 3GS. Backed up 3G and restored 3GS from backup with no problem. When I want to add songs, I get itunes message that the new iphone is synced to another computer and now wants to erase everything. How can I add music?

Had 3G, moved to 3GS. Backed up 3G and restored 3GS from backup with no problem on a Dell computer. But now when I want to add songs, I get itunes message of death that the new iphone is synced to another computer and now wants to erase everything. How can I add music without erasing everything on my new iphone?

Yes, I was aware of this but the phrase "Any items imported from audio CDs or acquired from other sources will not copy from your device to the iTunes library." is what worries me. Will this eliminate my Notes, Calendar Events, etc or will it apply mostly just to the music?

Recovering Mac HD via Time Machine Backup fails because "Restore system from backup" doesn't show in Utilities Menu of original install. DVD

Hi, after serious problems (troubleshooting didn't help) with my iMac G5 (PPC) running Mac OS X Leopard I've tried to recover my Mac HD via Time Machine (exactly as described by David Pogue on page 242 of the Leopard Missing Manual). However, "Restore system from backup" in the Utilities Menu of my original Leopard installation DVD failed to show up. What can I do?
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated -
Ballant

Hi Ballant,
I'm not very good with TM, nor a fan of it, but our resident king of TM, Pondini, has a vast array of very well done TM trouble shootings...
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Restoring System from Backup

When the mac os x cd installer is running you can go to "Utilities" and "Restore System from Backup". Does this command install snow leopard and then add the time machine files or does it just restore the files (meaning you will have to install Snow Leopard first).

Have a read here How do I restore my entire system?
It restores both the OSX system and the user files (applications and data).
Stefan

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.

Using InDesign CS4 on iMac. Had to restore computer from backup. Licensing has stopped working. Error code 150:30. How can I reestablish my license?

Using InDesign CS4 on iMac. Had to restore computer from backup. Licensing has stopped working. Error code 150:30. How can I reestablish my license?

You'll need to have a chat with Adobe Support. Here's a link:
https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=ZNA_downloading-installing-setting-up_licensing- activation
We can't help you with that here.

When restore iPhone from backup, why it copying every single app

when restore iPhone from backup, why it is copying every single app from library? any way to restore whatever was backed up from iPhone?

How to restore from backup without sync all my apps? I recently upraded firmware to IOS 7, and then tried to restore from my privouse backup. But it everytime, when it's saying you are successfully restored. but I when I unlock my phone all app icon are dark gray color, means nothing restored and then itunes automactically copying all my app to iPhone like 100+ apps, I dont need all of them.
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Restore Files from Backup on Vista Home Premium ; HP Pavilion m8120n

Hello,
I backed up files on HP personal media drive M:HP8120 and did a full System Recovery on my HP Pavilion m8120n. Now when I attempt to restore files from a backup made on this computer, the message says there are no backups available on this computer. I tried advanced restore/Restore files from backup made on another computer or restore files for all users on this computer. I can see the file in Select the Backup set to restore window. I select the file and in the next window, select the date to restore from, I get the message “Backup location is not available.” If I click next, in the select the files and folders to restore window, nothing is listed. However, I get the opportunity to restore everything in this backup -- add files, add folders, etc. If I click add folders, I don’t see drive M: but I see drive C: and D:.
At this point I am at a loss. Can anyone shed light on my situation?

Thanks for the info. It appears that your Time-Warner router is serving a public IP address.
My suggestion is to use the D-Link wireless-router for your local LAN (connect the Time-Warner to the WAN input of the D-Link). If you're concerned about speed issues, you can connect your laptop into the LAN bridge of the D-Link.
If you're worried about speed, you can do a simple before and after experiment to see if the D-link is degrading your I/O throughput. I've used sites speedtest.net with good success in troubleshooting bandwidth issues.
Regards / Jim B / Wireless Enthusiasts
( While I'm an embedded wireless systems engineer at work, on this forum I do not represent my former employer, Hewlett-Packard, or my current employer, Microsoft )
+ Click the White Kudos star on the left as a way to say "thank you" for helpful posts.

"Restore system from backup" doesn't work

Hi folks! I've got a strange little problem and my normal rampage through Google hasn't dug up anything, so I figured I'd ask it here.
I currently have an early 2011 MacBookPro running 10.6.8 on an Intel SSD. A few days ago I figured I'd install an XP boot camp partition for the occasional bout of gaming (mmm... Skyrim... *dreamy look*)
So I made my Time Machine backup up-to-date, burned a CD with drivers, and let Disk Utility play with the partitions. Only thing was it said it couldn't do the job due to space issues and suggested I wipe the disk first.
Ok, no problem. My Time Machine backup was snug and secure and I've got plenty of install experience. I popped in the Lion DVD I'd burned for my other iMac and booted from it. Strangely, it give me an installation error (I guess it tries to install automatically without user interaction). But that's fine since I didn't want to install Lion anyway (I'm addicted to SL's Spaces). So I ran Disk Utility again with the partitions the way Boot Camp had advised (GUID, 2 partitions). This also worked without a problem.
Then I attempted the option "Restore system from backup" in the Utilities menu, and lo and behold: nothing happens. Nothing happened at all. No drive spin-up, no color wheel, no indication of any activity whatsoever. If I select any of the other options, it opens promptly, but clicking the restore option is as productive as a glob of ant spit on a meteor strike.
So I figure, still no worries, maybe the Lion disk has issues. So I take out my Snow Leopard DVD and boot from that. Never gave problems before, but alas: the iMac refuses to boot from it and starts throwing out 3 beeps every 5 seconds or so. (Googling the beeps pointed me to memory issues. Wait.. Whut?!?)
Okaaay. Then I tried it with my Leopard DVD. Once again, won't boot, beeps.
The Lion DVD seems to be the only DVD I can boot my mac from. The only thing I can guess at is that Apple prevents us from installing with older DVD's because of driver issues, which makes sense I guess. But I had Snow Leopard running fine up until now. I've tried several different partitioning schemes including the default one for an installation, but no cigar. Both Disk Utility and futil show both drives are visible and ok.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for your time!
regards,
Meindert Honig

lepkitty wrote:
you should see the time machine come up and be able to select a date on the rite. the screen should look like its something out of star trek with several windows going back into a star like looking thing. if you see that then you want to do is select a date then click restore. you will be promoted that doing this will erase the computer, thats ok! its going to erase it and replace it with what your restoring.
You're mixing two very different things. You get the +Star Wars+ display, with the timeline on the right, only when browsing via +Enter Time Machine.+ Restoring something from there +*does not erase your entire computer!+* It only replaces what you've selected to restore.
If you do a full system restore (meaning boot volume), starting with your Install disc (per #14 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum), there is no "Star Wars" display, and only the drive/partition that you select as a destination for the restore is erased.

Restore mail from iCloud

By deleting mailboxes from my @me account I didn't expect that iCloud would sync. Is there a possibility of restoring mail from iCloud/ idisk for mailboxes? I would expect that back ups would be taken from the iCloud?
hope somebody or Apple can help. regards, albertus

If the old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, try temporarily recreating the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. Now try using your current password even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. If successful, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was.

Restoring iphone from backup

is anyone else having trouble restoring iphone from backup since 2.0. it worked fine with 1.4 but i have tried it once with 2.0 and once 2.0.1 both times it said my backup was corrupt. this is getting real annoying.

I'm about to just thow my iphone 3G out the window. I cannot upgrade the software without it hanging up and not finishing. Then I am forced to try to restore the phone, and it will not restore. I am taking it to an apple genius again today to get it restored. I have not gotten any information that has helped resolve this issue. I've been on the phone with a tier 1 and tier 2 support person for 4 hours about 3 weeks ago and I'm now in the same boat again. Any info on how to make this work would be greatly appreciated!!

Restore mail from af Timemachine backup

Hello.
My server crashed some days ago due to a harddisk failure.
I had a Timemachine backup from the server, but you can't restore a server that way, so I installed from fresh.
Now I'm missing a lot of mails
Is it possible, to restore the mails from the timemachine backup?
Hoping for a good answer.

Hi Thomas,
first of all, if you have some mails in your backup, ignore the following answer, otherwise take a line of coke before.
I don't want to frighten you but I experienced a crash a couple of years ago and I remember that I was very surprised that Time Machine does NOT backup /var (where mails are stored). I had to explain to my users that all their mails was lost.
Since this day, I use mailbfr to backup the mail database.
Joan

Restoring messages from backup-can "add" to mail but can't "add" to .Mac

Hello!
I posted this post in the .Mac email forum, but a fellow user suggested putting it here too, since it does seem to be a leopard-mail problem. Any help is very much appreciated.
I had some problems on my MacBook (2.2 Ghz, 10.5.2, everything up to date), and ended up having my mail database go absolutely nuts - which was made worse when I accidentally forwarded my .Mac account to my IMAP Gmail account, so messages were being randomly duplicated between the servers. Furthermore, if I tried to delete an email, it would disappear from one, only to re-appear twice over as it was forwarded back and forth. (Sheesh!)
In any case, I ended up turning off forwarding in all accounts, then deleting everything in .Mac, via the web interface, since the mess was too much to deal with. I then copied my Mail folder (User>Library>Mail) from my old G4 to my MacBook Pro, since it had been synced JUST before the glitch. The G4 is running Tiger, and Mail in Leopard wouln't import the messages via the File>Import menu option. So, I replaced the Leopard mail folder - replaced the folder from the MBP with the one from the G4 - and it imported the messages. (It went through the "Welcome to the new OS X Mail, let's update your library" screen).
Here's the problem: if I simply click "Get mail" after "importing" the old G4 mail folder, all messages will automatically erase themselves since it's syncing with .Mac. I thought "sync" meant "merge", not overwrite! (It certainly did in the past). Should I make an "on my mac" folder to store a copy of the messages while it "syncs", I can copy them into the .Mac inbox - and it will send them to the .Mac server. Even so, the next time I click "get messages", they will disappear - even from the "on my mac" folder!
Can I get the messages back onto .Mac? How?

The format of the disk is a Mac format. but that is irrelevant in a NAS device, as long as it offers SMB.. ie windows file network format.. you don't have to worry in the least how the files are stored on the drive.
But you cannot partition a TC.. it is as it is..
I have some iOS devices in addition including an AppleTV. Could this TC serve them as well as the Windows XP Pro PCs without having a Mac in my inventory ? (No time Machine.)
What are you expecting to serve to the iOS devices.. they are completely dumb.. they don't even know what the file system is without an APP.. and there is no Apple Format apps only SMB.. which is kind of interesting.
They are designed to work with iTunes.. but the TC is not an iTunes server strangely as lots of non-Apple products manage to make their NAS into ITunes servers. You can place the iTunes library on the TC but we don't recommend it due to the TC having no automated way to back itself up.. again unlike every other NAS out there. You can manually backup the TC via the USB.. it is slow and can only backup the whole disk.. even if you backed up the whole disk yesterday.. it has no ability to do incremental rsync or any other intelligent backup.

Restore files from Backup

Hi, I'm having problems restoring from the Backup I made in Tiger to Leopard.
I did a full backup onto an external drive of my iPhoto, iTunes, Mail, iCal and Address Book using Backup which is part of the .Mac bundle.
I have 70 gig of 'backup' files from Part 1 to Part 18 on my external hard drive.
I have installed Backup 3 onto my fresh copy of Leopard ..... but when I run a restore of the Backup files it only lets me select one "part" of the backup files not all 18 in one go and then it says:
"This backup does not contain a full restore catalog"
"If you choose to restore from this backup, you will only be able to restore files contained in this backup".
It then takes me through the process of "ticking" the boxes for the files i wish to restore and then scans all 70 gig but when it tries to copy it fails. ie: Failed Restore.
Any ideas how to get the 70 gig back onto my mac?
Cheers

Two things - Is the version of Backup the very latest from Apple?
I would suggest working backwards - I know it sounds like a lot of work.
Install Tiger on another computer, using the exact user/admin names/passwords
Install the original version of Backup you used on Tiger.
See what happens.
As an aside, and as you are finding out, Backup is not a very satisfactory way of backing up.
I use Superduper and CarbonCopy which make a bootable clone which you can test beforehand.
I believe that Backup encrypts the files - at least it does when you use iDisk, so you may not be able to easily get into the files, directly.
As I say, the easiest way to attempt a recovery is to go backwards, to Tiger.
I hope you will be able to recover the files.
Some other user here might have a better idea.
I am sure that there is a way to get them - it's a matter of finding it.

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