I updated the OS last week and suddenly my MacBook stopped recognising my charger! Long story short, we had to erase and restore the software. When I restored my files from Time Machine however, the "on my Mac" email folders were no longer in mail! Both my gmail accounts and my iCloud accounts are up and working with their folders but the folders I was storing emails in locally have gone. Any ideas how I can get them back? Thanks
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6
What do you see in the Sidebar?
I see, in this order:
Favorites
Smart Mailboxes
On My Mac
(account 1)
(account 2)
(account 3)
(account 4)
Are you saying that your accounts come after Favorites (and perhaps Smart Mailboxes, if you have any), and there is no On My Mac in between?
Here is a screenshot (I twirled each of the sections closed to make it shorter and preserve privacy):
The local mailboxes are located in the Home/User/Library/Mail/V10 folder.
Go into Time Machine, go back in time to just before you erased and restored and recover the V10 folder. When asked to save both or replace I would choose Both. Before launching Mail go thru the V10 folder and see if the On My Mac mailboxes are there. If not go back in time a bit more and try again. Keep you current V10 folder so you'll have any new emails that you got since the erase and restore.
OR save any new emails as Raw message, .emi, for importing once you get the local mailboxes back.
Thank you! I'd managed to find the emails under V10 but wasn't sure how to get them back into Mail. In the meantime, I've just installed another update and lo and behold on my Mac is now back complete with all its messages so I'm a happy little camper again.
Thanks again for your help!
Thanks Luis. Great ideas. I'll try them
Are you sure it is not just hidden? Hover the cursor near On My Mac and click the > that appears to disclose the contents.
Hi, no sadly even the title "on my Mac" has gone! Nothing there to click on :)
Thanks for trying to help, Luis.
I have Favourites, Smart Mailboxes and then my 3 accounts. No on my Mac at all
That's weird. I have never seen that.
Try restarting in Safe Mode. Same thing?
Try creating a new user account, and add just one e-mail account to that user, as a test. Same thing?
Thanks to everyone who tried helping! Great support :) and much appreciated!
Well the second or third time is a charm. Glad you're back up and running.
"on my Mac" email folders
