Where Is Archived Mail Saved?

When using the "Archived Mail" script, where do the messages get archived to?
Thanks.

Nevermind, I was trippin'...lol When you archive via the "Archived Mail" script you're prompted for a location to archive to.
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in the settings menu then specific mail account advanced above where it gives you the option to tick send discarded message to archive folder there is another box above that about behaviour ....my iPad was set to send archive mail to the "all mail" folder.you have to change this to the archive folder to then see that folder.
this should do it!

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Hello everyone
I am using Mail application in OS X 10.10 to manage my gmail.
Today I misclicked to the Archive button, so an email disappered (actually I want to delete this mail).
How can I get this e-mail back and delete it?
Thank you very much

Hello brenden
Your answer is great one, thank you very much
When I open Archive folder, suddenly I saw many messages, but I have never archived them (I only misclicked only one time I mentioned above).
The storage of Macbook is small and I do not want to waste any GB to store something I do not have to.
So, is my situation a correct one (see emails in Archived folder when I did not archive them)?

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I am a new MAC user with some expirience in Unix qnd Linux.
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Most Simple Back Up:
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
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How can I "archive" mails in Mail App to another internal drive/partition to save space but still have it searchable in spotlight (and preferably visible, searchable, draggable in Mail App)?
Background:
I am using Mountain Lion and Mail App and running out of space on my small primary SSD drive (where I keep OS, apps, key user preferences/data and mail for speed). The mail data is the big variable (many GBs) and I want to "archive"/move some of the old mail to my 2nd drive inside the Mac. But I still want it searchable inside spotlight and preferably even inside Mail too. And I'd like to be able to still drag and drop old mails into this archive folder.
What I've tried that seems to work:
This seemed to work:
1. Move the archive folder/mailbox to the 2nd drive/partition/folder (don't delete anything inside Mail App)
2. Create a symbolic link from its new location to the original/old location
This seems to work, it looks as "normal" and as if nothing happened inside Mail App but the folder now resides elsewhere and seems searchable etc. But I'm not sure that once caches refresh or over time with updates etc if stuff will break horribly or corrupt.
Is that the right way to "archive" mails in Mail App to another internal drive/partition to save space but still have it searchable in spotlight and visible, searchable, draggable in Mail App?
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I'm having a similar but slightly different problem. My company just migrated to Gmail, and it's saving mail drafts every 30 seconds into my Trash folder.
I unchecked the "Show in IMAP" preference in the Gmail settings, but my Drafts folder completely disappeared. I went back and checked it and the folder reappeared (with my drafts still in there).
I like the idea if starting an email on my laptop and having the option of finishing it on my iPhone or iPad, so only saving Drafts locally would not be ideal.

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Just upgraded to Mountain Lion and lost my mail folder where I would move mail after reading. I think it was a SmartFolder. Also, open to anyone who has suggestions to archiving mail. On Outlook (on my work machine), i simply have a year and month folder in an off-line PST folder.
thanks,
mjh

I'm unclear on exactly what happened, but note that a Smart Mailbox is not an actual storage location, it's just a saved search. If you had a Smart Mailbox that you thought was an archival storage location, and you deleted the messages from other mailboxes, then they would have disappeared from the Smart Mailbox as well.
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Hi -
As the subject indicates, I'm not sure what the best way is to read old archived mail....
Old mail was saved before I updated to Tiger, and don't know if that makes a difference.
Obviously I want to avoid overwriting any current messages, but would also like to know how to pull archived messages and keep them with my current messages, if possible.
Thanks,
Andrew

If these archives were saved with Jaguar or Panther Mail, it does make a difference since the mbox format used with Tiger Mail is significantly different than the format used with previous Mail.app versions.
You can use the Import Mailboxes feature. Imported mailboxes are placed within an Import named folder kept separate from existing Tiger Mail mailboxes and messages.

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I archived some old mail that I wanted to save but now I cannot locate it. I watched some tutorials but the archive folder shown in the left panel of mail doesn't exist for me. Where is my archived mail? I am running Lion.

I actually found it myself. Way down at the bottom of the left mail panel, there are some ghost/grayed-out mailbox names. (gmail, etc). If you hover on the right of the bar, the word "show" will appear. click this and the archived mail for each account will appear.

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OK;
I should know this and Wikipedia doesn't explain it, but in using Mail under a POP account where "leave mail on server for x time " is selected, are both the incoming and outgoing mail saved on server or only the incoming? I ask because I am trying to restore a POP account using a TM backup that is a few days old. I know the incoming mail will be there for the time since the backup because I checked "leave on server", but will the Sent mail be there also?

Mail that you send is stored in the Sent Messages.mbox folder for the account, in your Library/Mail folder. It is not stored on the server.
AK

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I had a mail account set up as POP for about a month and decided it would be better for iPhone/MBP syncing purposes to switch to IMAP.
I wanted to save all of my Sent mail so I archived and saved as "Sent Messages.mbox"
When I went to import, everything seemed to go fine with the exception of how those emails are now displayed.
Currently, if I want to access them, I have to go On My Mac > Import > Sent Messages.mbox > mbox. After doing that, the messages are no longer organized by the recipient like a normal sent box is; the heading lists "From" instead of "To."
I've tried simply dragging the imported messages to my regular sent folder to no avail. Is there a way to restore the imported mail to either my regular sent folder or be able to at least organize them according to the recipient?

Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A Finder window will open with a file selected. Move the selected file to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have names that begin with "Envelope Index". Move those files, if any, to the Trash.
Log out and log back in. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is corrupt and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the file you moved to the Desktop. Otherwise, post your results.

Using AppleScript to auto-archive mail in Outlook 2011

I want to use AppleScript to set up a schedule to auto-archive mail greater than X days old. What I've found so far is below, and the error I'm receiving is "error "Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t get pop account \"TargetProcess\"." number -1728 from pop account "TargetProcess"".
# the time we want to archive from
set theArchiveCutoffTime to ((current date) - (32 * days))
property theCount : 0
tell application "System Events"
set targetProcess to count (every application process whose name is "Mail")
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set thisAccount to pop account "TargetProcess"
set thisFolders to mail folder of thisAccount
# find the "Inbox" of topFolder and "Mail ARCHIVE" of on my computer
repeat with thisFolder in thisFolders
if name of thisFolder is "Inbox" then
set theInbox to thisFolder
else if name of thisFolder is "Mail ARCHIVE" then
set theARCHIVE to thisFolder
end if
end repeat
# find the archive "Inbox"
repeat with thisFolder in mail folder of theARCHIVE
if name of thisFolder is "Inbox" then
set theArchiveInbox to thisFolder
end if
end repeat
set theArchiveTarget to theArchiveInbox
# archive the Inbox
repeat with theMessage in message in theInbox
if time received of theMessage < theArchiveCutoffTime then
move theMessage to theArchiveTarget
set theCount to theCount + 1
else
# we get messages from oldest to newest
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
# archive sub-folders
repeat with thisSubfolder in mail folder of theInbox
# find the archive subfolder corresponding to this
repeat with thisARCHIVEubfolder in mail folder of theArchiveInbox
if name of thisARCHIVEubfolder is name of thisSubfolder then
set theArchiveTarget to thisARCHIVEubfolder
end if
end repeat
# archive messages
repeat with theMessage in message in thisSubfolder
if time received of theMessage < theArchiveCutoffTime then
move theMessage to theArchiveTarget
set theCount to theCount + 1
else
# we get messages from oldest to newest
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
I'm working in AppleScript Editor v2.6.1 (152.1), Microsoft Outlook 2011 v14.3.5, OSX 10.9.4 Mavericks.

Ok, red_menace above me had a shorter and more elegant solution to the question, I'm adding this just for another example.
To solve your problem I'd make a mail rule that looked for any messages with "Filename:" in them (along with whatever criteria you wanted, like sender, domain, etc). The mail rule would execute the Applescript. My assumption is that the "Filename:foobar" text could be anywhere in the email, not necessarily the first thing in a paragraph, so I had to parse it differently.
The results end up in a datalist, (theFilename {} ) that you can parse later to collect all filenames found in whatever messages were processed.
I realize this could be cleaner, hope it's not hard to follow, but I did it really fast. It works flawlessly for me, picking out the name of the file no matter where in the email it appears.
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theSelectedMessages for rule theRule
repeat with aCounter from 1 to count theSelectedMessages
set theMessage to item aCounter of theSelectedMessages
set theContent to content of theMessage
set theWords to every word of theContent
set theFilename to {}
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
repeat with thisLoop in theWords
try
if (text item 1 of thisLoop) is "Filename" then
set end of theFilename to (text item 2 of thisLoop)
-- rest of your logic goes here the display is just to show it finds the filename, take it out!
display dialog theFilename ¬
buttons {"OK"}
end if
end try
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
end repeat
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
Message was edited by: stephen.bradley Typos for the win!

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If the USB is removed, the movie is still technically part of the library, but will not be accessible, it will show up grayed out and not be playable.

HT204093 Where is my mail folder on my mac

Okay I hope to make sense here....
I had all my mail in the icloud. I then created a folder on my mac for mail older than 6 months. Then mail that was older than 6 months in cloud I moved to my mac.
In mail I had renamed the older than 6 month folder. I still see my old mail in mail. I can't find the corresponding folder on mac, or when I do it really is odd size. Mail in folder on mac is housing 10 years worth of email and coming in at 300MB when I think it would be way bigger, like 1 TB.
I created a new folder in mail, but I can't find the coorseponding folder in documents---> mail folder.
Where is the mail folder on the mac? Where does it naturally default too?
Thanks,
Andy

Thank you of the quick reply and I kind of now have more info.
Since posting my question I "exported" the mailbox and voila, 2.6GB of info. So I think I have some solution.
"Are you desiring to Archive mail older than six months and remove that from Mail?" Not from Mail, but the iCloud, but when I did remove from icloud, I want to make another back up, even though I have time machine. I want to basically burn a DVD or put old email on other storage media.
"With a better understanding of your goal -- I can help you to a solution." Okay great, appreciate it! I hope I made/make sense.
"If you haven't done a Rebuild lately, I'd highly recommend you start there:" Ummm I've never rebuild.... so I also wanted to back up the data before I rebuild I think, right? I have no other copy, these emails were removed from the iCloud, and put in a mail folder on my mac (which I can't find the mailbox (mbox) on the mac, user name--->documents---> mail folder---> there is no corresponding mbox that I just created, this folder/get info says circa 2012), so the mail on my mac is not copied from iCloud. Technically I do have the time machine backup.... but you never know if that gets corrupted.
So my thought prior to rebuild is to export, as a back up, then rebuild? As to mailbox naming, since I have no idea where the corresponding folders are on my mac, exporting first, might be best option. If I rebuild, will that break or possibly lose data?
Thoughts?
Andy

Where does archived email go?

Where does archived email go? And how do you retrieve it?

Looking at other discussions, I think I answered my question. Please let me know if this is correct- I have gmail and when emails are archived they go to my "all mail" box.
Thank you for replying

How do I access archived mail?

Please advise how I can check archived mail and mabe find something that was put in the trash a few months ago and I need!!!
I do have a time machine but can't find a Mobileme/mail icon.
THANK YOU!!!

If you put it in the trash, but never deleted the trash, it may still be in there.
Even if it has been deleted, if you've been using Time Machine, it should be easy to get back.
Launch Mail and make its main window the front window. Select the mailbox where that deleted item existed. Click on the Time Machine icon in the Dock, to go to the flying through space screen.
Note: I noticed there was a bit of "lag" when I did this with the Mail window, for the first time. If it seems unresponsive (or slow) initially, just wait a minute or so on that screen and responsiveness should improve.
Go "back in time," using the timeline on the right edge of screen, until you see the item that was deleted. Select that item. Click Restore.

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