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After crashing of my old MacBook, I bought a new one (2021) and I used time machine to restore my files.
However, mailboxes that were located at the LOCAL disk were not restored, resulting in the loss of thousands of mails and a lot of work.
It seems that time machine does not work properly for mailboxes.
Is there any solution for this?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.0
Hi,
Following tip could help your question.
How to manually restore your Mail fonder from Time Machine.
Hi,
Following tip could help your question.
How to manually restore your Mail fonder from Time Machine.
Thank you kaz-k!
What you propose is the regular "road" to restore mails. Unfortunately, the Mail folder does not exist in the time machine.
I think that this is a system failure of Apple, since it was not required to select or not the Mail from time machine during the back-up process.
After a similar crashing in 2014, the mailboxes were automatically restored by time machine, so I was unaware of this bad evolution.
Are there any other proposals?
I've had a similar rude awakening after trying to search for some emails from late last year that I carelessly deleted a few weeks ago. I recall that recovering emails used to be as simple as entering Time Machine from Mail.
Is there any way to ensure emails are backed up somewhere in TimeMachine? I certainly can't find any options in this regard in the System Preferences, so it does seem like a rather large 'hole' in the backup.
How to restore mailboxes from time machine?
