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I accidentally permanently deleted an email that I need to recover. It is not an iCloud account but my own domain address. It has been a while since I have used Time Machine to recover any files BUT you used to be able to load Time Machine and recover deleted email from a date before it was deleted. However, I do not see this functionality anymore in Monterey OS. Is this wonderful feature gone and am I SOL or what am I missing?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
On the Mac go to Users>your user name>Library>Mail V9>folder with a long alphanumeric name>The specific inbox (like [Gmail].mbox)>All Mail.mbox>another long alphanumeric named folder>Data> a number>Message and the messages will be displayed with numbers like 10047.emix.
Here is screenshot that shows location on my Mac
Then open ™ and ™ will opep to that location. I just tried it
On the Mac go to Users>your user name>Library>Mail V9>folder with a long alphanumeric name>The specific inbox (like [Gmail].mbox)>All Mail.mbox>another long alphanumeric named folder>Data> a number>Message and the messages will be displayed with numbers like 10047.emix.
Here is screenshot that shows location on my Mac
Then open ™ and ™ will opep to that location. I just tried it
While I had Catalina installed in my wife's computer we were looking to set up Time Machine to back her computer up. She saves hundreds of emails for future reference and they are critically important to her. We discovered that Time Machine does NOT save email messages. Our solution was to purchase and install the back up app Carbon Copy Cloner. It does those back ups and it also has features not found in Time Machine.
I do use Carbon Copy Cloner but did not find my deleted emails. My experience with Carbon Copy Cloner is only to clone hard disk and restore. I think my deleted emails are gone due to the fact I found a setting on my iPhone that said to 'Remove deleted emails = 1 week'. Thanks for the suggestion.
I browsed 'several' folders. My folders look somewhat different. I do not have a 'All Mail.mbox' folder anywhere on my system. I found a work around for now. I was able to find a copy of the email in the 'Sent' folder from a Reply. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Too bad that feature is no longer available in Time Machine, it was so convenient. I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt on why they removed it. Or maybe I won't since they can't get their act together on device connection plugs. :-)
Thanks for the MailBackupX suggestion. I'll take a look at it.
You can try what IIIaass stated but it will be very time consuming and tedious to find a specific email. I would suggest for future use you try using an email backup app like MailBackupX.
Recover emails using Time Machine
