Time Capsule made sent/trash email folders disappear - help!

I turned on Time Capsule for my wife's Mac. It did a backup. Now she says all her sent e-mail (Mac email app) is gone. Trash too. How do I get this stuff back for her? and keep it there? She is not too happy. I am annoyed at Apple.

Time Machine so you mean.. Time Capsule is a router with a hard disk. it cannot do anything on your wife's computer.
Time Machine is not going to delete files on your computer.. whether it succeeds or fails at backup.. it won't wipe files. Make sure she is logged in correctly.. it would be best to log out and log back into the machine.
Check in the TM backup if the emails are there.. but you should restore them to another location so you don't make it worse.
See Pondini on various types of recovery.. apple mail has specific info.

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