Lost mail in OS Catalina upgrade
I lost all my emails in Apple Mail doing a system upgrade to OS Catalina!
I lost all my emails in Apple Mail doing a system upgrade to OS Catalina!
Several people have reported lost or blank e-mail messages after updating macOS to Catalina. I lost 50,000 messages. Here's my solution, which requires a back-up of messages made before the Catalina update.
Methods that did not work for me:
Hi, lost of all pop e-mails after a normal installation of Catalina.
Why not participate to a class action. What does it imply?
Happy New Year all!
donc@59925.com - I sent you an email - it might end up in SPAM. RSVP.
Did you try the method that I suggested earlier in this discussion?
Yes, I did, coxorange, (didn't know that soft before): nothing very unusual.
Thanks.
Thanks rmarolt, but can't find your suggested method in the thread…
Tripteron/rmarolt,
you forgot to mention to Jan that even after following your steps,
you were still left with 1,500 inaccessible messages,
so your method is helpful, but not the solution.
Tripteron/rmarolt:
A question about your successful export to Postbox. Did you import from Postbox your e-mails from a backup of your Mail mailboxes?
I was still trying to get Apple Mail to work for me. I didn't know that it would not display all my imported messages. Importing directly from the V6 folder into Postbox seems reasonable to me.
I tried. Apple Mail does not import all the messages. And it shows the wrong dates for some messages (such as today's date for messages that are fifteen years old).
Jan, I'm happy that this worked for you, however I couldn't understand all the instructions.
Please could you post a step-by-step guide? I'm sure others would appreciate this too. Thanks.
Tripteron wrote:
If anything more will happen on this issue, it will happen in a future software release.
So certainly not in 10.15.3 yet?
coxorange,
You're great, but I think the default option is to delete retrieved messages (but I could be wrong).
And you're very careful: proof that sometimes it's useful!.
Yes thats exactly what I did - recover the V6 file directly from the library/mail but searching in that folder only shows emails sent/recived before jan 2019, nothing afterwards
That’s strange, indeed.
Tried to import mailboxes with another app. ?
Jan, you wrote:
Ian Blavins wrote:
successfully recover 40,000 odd e-mails and attachments
Including all your lost POP mails?
Lost mail in OS Catalina upgrade