robertbec Author

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Need to retrieve Mail Folder

Hi

I took my hard drive out of my imac that died and i need to recover the mail.

I have plugged the drive into a dock to my macbook but cant seem to locate the folder to transfer over the mail content

Can someone help please

Rob

Posted on Dec 13, 2020 7:19 PM

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Dec 13, 2020 10:07 PM in response to robertbec

You can use your Time Machine backup to restore your mail.

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robertbec Author

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Dec 14, 2020 2:13 PM in response to rkaufmann87

Not sure how that is done

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Dec 14, 2020 5:53 PM in response to robertbec

Restore mailboxes and their content in Mail on Mac

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