Following an OS update that crashed, I now have a new 13.2.1 update. My Mail program no longer displays the files "on My Mac", and I cannot access my Time Machine backups for the period before the crash. How can I recover them within Mail?
iMac 27″, macOS 12.6
You can’t. At least not based on your description of events. Any data that was stored locally but was not backed up is most likely gone.
Why can’t you access your previous Time Machine backups?
Find Any File...
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php
Hold Option or alt key when selecting Find to Find All.
Use it to search your ccc drive for Name: Ends in......
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You can't use CCC to go back and retrieve files unless they hav already been backed up in CCC, just as is the case with Time Machine. I'm sorry but I think you may have lost those files. Please tell us exactly why you say that you cannot access your Time Machine backups. You should be able to if those backups still exist.
Perhaps someone will be able to specifically answer your recovery problem for you. I long ago stopped using Time Machine because of the extreme difficulty in being able to recover older/saved email messages. For many people, being able to easily access these messages is very important, especially when they have saved hundreds or thousands of them. That is simply not possible with Time Machine. That is why I use and recommend Carbon Copy Cloner as a backup app. It provides a mirror version of everything on your HD. Finding an email message is just as easy as going directly to a message in Mail.
I lost many personal files on friends and contacts that had been on Mail/"on My Mack" until the last update. I understand that I might be able to identify and retrieve them on CCC. How does on go about doing this?
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I cannot access Time Machine records since my OS crash and download of a new OS Ventura. My current access does not extend beyond the point where the new OS was installed. I can “see” that a record of my last active day with the old disk exists on TM, I just can’t get through it.
Regarding CCC, and have copies of alll my Mac Mail files for the entire past year. I have used CCC in past to replace generic and broad data, but never for something as precise of the old “on My Mac” personal files created and maintained in Mail. All the Mail system files a okay, but the one created within Mail but “on My Mac” are gone.
How to locate and retrieve Mail files "on My Mac" follow cpu crash and recovery
