Our pressing problem concerns what happens if we try to RECOVER the TimeMachine IN-BOX in Mail. It is not clear in various sources we've read that the recovery will create an In-Box that will be accessible to us so as to drag the messages we need back into the current In-Box which is currently incomplete due to our having an iMAP mail account at the time of the rebuild -- i.e, they were no longer on the mail server due to being too old (see our original message to the List, immediately below).
Sandy and Loren
Mail Version 9.3 (3124) TimeMachine Version 1.3
iMac12,2 / 27" /Mid-2011/ Intel Core i5 / 2.7 GHz / 12GB Ram / OSX 10.11.6 “El Capitan"
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Help,. Help, we're stymied,
We "rebuilt" our Mail Inbox, in particular, the InBox of our UVIC Mail account. It had been changed from a "POP" account late in 2016 to an iMAP account. As a result, many old, as yet un-filed messages were lost in a subsequent REBUILD as they were well over a year old and no longer on the UVIC server for the "re-loading" to our inbox Mail after rebuilding the inbox.
When we check in TimeMachine, which is on our own external drive, we can go as far back as the year 2011 for our UVIC Inbox and see the un-filed messages dating that far back. Those are the messages we want back on our computer. (That date may be when, coincidentally, we upgraded our computer and OS.)
The option we seem to have in TimeMachine is to select the "RESTORE" option for our inbox. If we so this, does TimeMachine RESTORE these old messages into our currently dated Mail as a separately identified file or "inbox" that would allow us to select messages from it that we want to drag back into our current inbox OR DOES IT TOTALLY REPLACE OUR CURRENT INBOX, thus losing everything that is still in the current inbox that had survived the inbox rebuild?
We need help here soon as we've stopped using TimeMachine so as to not pass out of view the oldest inbox messages in TimeMachine as the external TimeMachine drive gets fuller.
We're going to opt for changing back to the old "POP" account given that we do not have any need to send or receive email on any other device and can always use a GMail account when we're not home. But that's another issue for another time.
Sandy and Loren
Mail Version 9.3 (3124) TimeMachine Version 1.3
iMac12,2 / 27" /Mid-2011/ Intel Core i5 / 2.7 GHz / 12GB Ram / OSX 10.11.6 “El Capitan"
Sandy and Loren
Mail Version 9.3 (3124) TimeMachine Version 1.3
iMac12,2 / 27" /Mid-2011/ Intel Core i5 / 2.7 GHz / 12GB Ram / OSX 10.11.6 “El Capitan"
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Help,. Help, we're stymied,
We "rebuilt" our Mail Inbox, in particular, the InBox of our UVIC Mail account. It had been changed from a "POP" account late in 2016 to an iMAP account. As a result, many old, as yet un-filed messages were lost in a subsequent REBUILD as they were well over a year old and no longer on the UVIC server for the "re-loading" to our inbox Mail after rebuilding the inbox.
When we check in TimeMachine, which is on our own external drive, we can go as far back as the year 2011 for our UVIC Inbox and see the un-filed messages dating that far back. Those are the messages we want back on our computer. (That date may be when, coincidentally, we upgraded our computer and OS.)
The option we seem to have in TimeMachine is to select the "RESTORE" option for our inbox. If we so this, does TimeMachine RESTORE these old messages into our currently dated Mail as a separately identified file or "inbox" that would allow us to select messages from it that we want to drag back into our current inbox OR DOES IT TOTALLY REPLACE OUR CURRENT INBOX, thus losing everything that is still in the current inbox that had survived the inbox rebuild?
We need help here soon as we've stopped using TimeMachine so as to not pass out of view the oldest inbox messages in TimeMachine as the external TimeMachine drive gets fuller.
We're going to opt for changing back to the old "POP" account given that we do not have any need to send or receive email on any other device and can always use a GMail account when we're not home. But that's another issue for another time.
Sandy and Loren
Mail Version 9.3 (3124) TimeMachine Version 1.3
iMac12,2 / 27" /Mid-2011/ Intel Core i5 / 2.7 GHz / 12GB Ram / OSX 10.11.6 “El Capitan"