Lost mail in OS Catalina upgrade
I lost all my emails in Apple Mail doing a system upgrade to OS Catalina!
Want to highlight a helpful answer? Upvote!
Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others! Learn more about when to upvote >
Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others! Learn more about when to upvote >
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:
G'day,
Yes. I recovered e-mail for 2 IMAP and 12 POP accounts; the overwhelming bulk of messages were in the POP accounts.
Good news!
Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.3.1 with multiple bug fixes
So 10.15.3 should be released very soon too...
Jan,
So what you did was no standard upgrade?
What exactly did you do?
You talk to Jan or vbat? :-)
Sorry – to you, vbat!
Agree.
We could have hoped that Apple engineers would have designed a fix in 10.15.3 to fix the previous errors. It doesn't seem that Apple's scruples compel them as much.
Here is already the first new public 10.15.4 beta:
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/10/apple-seeds-macos-catalina-10-14-5-public-beta-1/
So how long will it be...?
did I mention, I had a "POP"-email account ?
Hello,
I recovered all my emails (about 20,000) with 10.15.3. It seems that all is okay now.
That sound interesting, compared to your other post which were visible not very long here. What do i have to do?
Sorry to hear that. Do you have a back-up?
And does "display message as plain text" really make messages visible and attachment appearing?
Messages can be recovered from a back-up.
May be - but not to OS X mail.
Anyway 10.15.4 supplemental is told to be so buggy, one should consider to wait for 10.15.5. I’ll wait for 10.16 - it’s almost May anyway
Lost mail in OS Catalina upgrade