How to recover accidentally deleted emails on my iMac?

I was doing a stupid clean up and found in the archive folder a WHOLE lot of emails so I deleted them but then found that it had wiped out all emails in all my email folders how do I get them back


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iMac 27″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jul 23, 2023 11:08 PM

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Jul 24, 2023 4:27 PM in response to Latin_meerkat

If you are running 13.4 then you can try to recover the entire mailbox from a TM backup as follows:


To restore mailbox:

Open Finder

Click “GO” in top menu bar then click option key

Click on Library

Open mail folder

Open V9 or V10 (or similar) folder

Then find the folders labeled with cryptic titles (at this point you could open TM if you want to go back in time)

Look down through those folders to find a mailbox (note: there may be more than one with same label).


If it contains email you want you can copy the entire folder to your desktop

Go back into mail and import that folder from your desktop


How to recover accidentally deleted emails on my iMac?

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