Mail crashes when trying to open Time Machine since upgrade to Catalina

When attempting to open Time Machine for my primary email address, Mail closes and provides an error message. My iMac has the public version of Catalina installed. Time Machine works fine with lesser used email addresses and when looking for something via Finder. I get the following error message (I've only included the applicable part). Thanks for your insights!

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: NSManagedObjectContext 0x600000aeabc0

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:

dyld3 mode

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Unexpected number of persistent stores (0), expected 1'

Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “Accounts.1063.db.timemachine” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/var/folders/sz/jsgqcvq90nqcm7dnrxvq01m00000gq/T/com.apple.mail/Accounts.1063.db.timemachine, NSSQLiteErrorDomain=14}

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terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

abort() called

Posted on Oct 11, 2019 9:06 AM

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d21mike

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Posted on Dec 20, 2019 6:57 AM

Richard.... I believe you misunderstood my solution. You still can not "Enter Time Machine" while in the Mail App. Mine crashes there as well. My solution, which I got from someone else is to use "FINDER" starting from the Home Folder. Then navigate to the Mail Folders "IN FINDER" then restore the mail box folders you want. You need to read my complete instructions for some things to watch out for.

However, maybe this will not work for your Time Machine Backup if it is located on a Network Storage Device (NAS). Mine is located on a directly attached backup usb drive. If yours is on a network server it might not have the same level of folder structure. But maybe another option similar to what I did.

I completely agree Apple needs to address this. But I simply could not wait and I found a workaround that worked for me and wanted to share with others that require access to older emails.

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