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Deleted mailbox in Mail.app
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Nov 16, 2003, 08:01 AM
 
Help!!! Is there any way to retrieve deleted mailbox in Mail.app. I no longer use this mailbox so I wanted to throw the account away. Without thinking I deleted the mailbox in the preferences window and behold......everything disappeared. Is this stored somewhere deep in a folder where I could restore it or is this deleted permanently? Any ideas, please?
     
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Nov 16, 2003, 08:43 AM
 
If it were still there, it would be in:

Your Home Folder -> Library -> Mail...

In there should be a folder, like for example mine is POP-olivercameron@talacia.com.

Look in a folder like that and there should be a set of .mbox's. To import it back into Mail, in Mail, goto File -> Import Mailboxes-> Choose Mail For OS X -> Navigate to the folder I talked about above and choose the correct .mbox.

Hope this helps,

Oliver
     
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Nov 16, 2003, 09:25 AM
 
Well thank you very much for your reply. The problem is that there is no trace at all of this mbox folder in ~/library/mail so I was wondering if it would be stored somewhere else....?
     
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Nov 16, 2003, 12:26 PM
 
Originally posted by ingimar:
Well thank you very much for your reply. The problem is that there is no trace at all of this mbox folder in ~/library/mail so I was wondering if it would be stored somewhere else....?
nope.

you can run a search just to be sure.
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Nov 16, 2003, 12:30 PM
 
Just search for .mbox, if its not there, you may be able to recover it if you need it back with Norton Systemworks.

Hope that helps,

Oliver
     
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Nov 16, 2003, 02:46 PM
 
Hmm.... thank you very much guys. Apparently I need to check Norton Systemworks out....yeah I knowþ.. I should have backed up. There are two kind of people on the earth. Those who have lost data and those who will.....
     
   
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