Viewing email within Time Machine - no subject line to identify, how do I find a specific email?

I am running OS X Yosemite, Thunderbird 31.2.0. I am looking for a deleted email using Time Machine. The emails are not identifiable by subject, by date, etc. but have some sort of code.
How can I search by a subject or date?

I'm not sure Time Machine will be useful.
Look in your profile for Trash in the relevant account. Open that with your text editor. If the message has been deleted from Trash, it will still be there if Trash hasn't yet been compacted.

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My Time Machine backup keeps failing...how do I find out why?? MacBook Pro 5,1 OS 10.5.8, 6GB ram backing up to new OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 2TB

Have you formatted the disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
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After 8 months of flawless operation Time Machine give an error backing up. I deleted the ".InProgress" and "Latest" files within the .backupsdb file. After this Time Machine did a proper backup - it showed up within the .backupsdb file. When I now enter time machine I don't see the 8 months of backups - only todays backup.
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yeeeoww wrote:
After 8 months of flawless operation Time Machine give an error backing up. I deleted the ".InProgress" and "Latest" files within the .backupsdb file.
That's not good. You can corrupt your backups that way. Time Machine can recover from a partial backup all by itself. And the "latest," which is an alias, not a file, is what makes the +Today / Now+ panel. I think TM will re-create it for you.
Do a +Repair Disk+ (not permissions) on your TM drive via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
If you have a problem with TM, start with the Time Machine - Troubleshooting post at the top of this forum.
After this Time Machine did a proper backup - it showed up within the .backupsdb file. When I now enter time machine I don't see the 8 months of backups - only todays backup.
Is there anything I can do to get TM to show the full range of backups?
See item #E2 in the Troubleshooting post.

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Ben
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Flydesign wrote:
It would be nice to be able to go back in timemachine to a document that you had 6 months ago and ressurect it.
You can do that easily. If you can't view it via QuickLook, restore it to an alternate location, such as your desktop. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #16.
I have been able to view documents in Time machine before.
Yes, some types of documents have always been viewable in TM backups. TextEdit, Pages, Numbers, Preview, and no doubt others. But some others aren't, and haven't been.
If bridge can view indesign documents, then Apple sure has the capability to add that as a feature to time machine.
Doubtful they'll do that for a 3rd-party app, but ask here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/timemachine.html
In 30+ years of design, I have only a handful of times forgot to save my work as I go.
Neither have I, but (a) it only takes once, and (b) most users don't. (Actually, most users don't even back up ).
Time Machine is not likely to change much in the forseeable future. If it doesn't meet your needs, there are lots of other backup apps around.

Navigation is stuck within Time Machine

I am trying to restore several folders from a Time Machine backup, but when I enter Time Machine, the finder within Time Machine comes up pointing to my User folder, but won't navigate to any other folder or any other drive. It doesn't matter where I have the finder window before I enter Time Machine, I always get the finder pointing to my user folder within the Star Wars display. I can navigate between backups in time, but that does no good if I can't choose the folder I want to restore.

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emilypdunne wrote:
Using Time Machine, is it possible to back up a computer AFTER a specific date. I only want to back up files from AFTER January 2015. Is this possible, and how can I do this?
Is what you're saying that you only want backups in TM of the state of your Mac from January 2015 to the current date and nothing before then? I'd think the simplest solution would just be to delete in TM all the backups prior to 1/15 and then let TM do its thing. The ultimate source for all things Time Machine is here. On this page, note the comment that "Time Machine will never delete the backup copy of anything that was on the disk being backed-up at the time of any remaining backup" which I understand to mean that if you delete all the backups in the TM file prior to 1/15, any file that wasn't present on your Mac as of 1/15 will no longer be represented in the TM file. Note that the second link also has instructions for how to delete TM files.
If you were trying to accomplish something else, then as Emily Litella (Gilda Radner in SNL) used to say, "never mind."

The menu line has disappeared - how do I find it?

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Remove a meeting on specific time date and subject line

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my efforts in trying to find a solution for this. Doesn't look like there is anyway to get back ownership or transfer it to someone else.
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Per my understanding, you might want to display all the specific documents in a page, they can be filtered by values of a Date and time column.
A possible solution I will provide is that, we can create custom visual web part to display all these documents. In the code behind, run a query with CAML to retrieved all the
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Viewing iphoto on time machine

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I am trying to figure out how I can view my iphoto from a previous backup I made on timemachine. I backed it up onto an external hardrive, so I know it is all there. But when I click the date and click iphoto, it says that it cannot open iphoto because there isn't enough free space. I also tried pressing command when opening iphoto to try and open another iphoto, but it led me to the pictures I currently have on my computer. Help?!?!?!

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I accidentally lost a file on my desktop, inadvertently dragging it onto my browser. I don't know what file I lost, and would like to retrieve it through my Time Machine. I don't want to replace all of the files on my desktop, but I would like to compare the files from two different dates (current date and last time saved) to discover the file I lost. If there's an easier way to make this discovery, I'm open for suggestions. Otherwise, I wonder if there's a way to see or compare my current files on desktop vs. my last save to Time Machine (without printing out a list).
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Hey apple_peeler,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you want to find out what is now missing by comparing it with other backups. The Restoring data from Time Machine backups section explains how you can do that.
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
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Have a nice day,
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I set up time machine and a day later I can browse around. Very cool graphics.
But it seems to be missing something useful (essential?) -- a way to look at what changed from backup to backup. Looking at the Info on a particular file on a particular backup I can see that the Last Modified Time is 3 weeks ago. But if I'm making changes to a set of files, figuring out WHICH backup I want (2,3 or 4 hours ago) would be easier if I could see what I've changed. It would be especially useful if "backups" where nothing changed were simply omitted.
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