How to get back a mailbox deleted

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Message was edited by: Klaus1

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

What password? You shouldn't need a password to restore it from your backup.

Do a backup, preferably 2 separate ones on 2 drives. Boot off the DVD and run Disk Utility Verify/Repair Disk and Repair Permissions until you get no errors. Reformat the drive using Disk Utility/Erase Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then click the Option button and select GUID. Then re-install the OS.

When you reboot, use Setup Assistant to restore your data.

Just a shot in the dark, try going to your home folder/Mail/com.apple.Mail.Backup.

You can use finder and GO>Go to Folder and type in ~/Mail and locate com.apple.Mail.Backup

Do you have Time Machine enabled? If so, that could be a pathway.

If you have a backup, open Mail, enter the backup and see if you can restore the mailbox.

If my post was one of the solutions ... Bring up Mail and on the left hand side is your list of mail boxes. Keeping that page open and active, click onTime machine and it should be showing a miniature version of the mail page and its boxes.

Scroll back in the time scale on the extreme right until you reach the date where you lost the mail box and go one day further back.

That box should now be visible and you then click restore.

To be honest, I've never had to do this so I cannot be 100% sure all the contents of that box will be there. But you have to try, don't you.

Your mailboxes are in your User Library folder which is hidden by default.

Either hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command and select your user Library in your home folder or use the Finder “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library/Mail/V2. Enter your backup with that folder selected. Find the mailbox and restore it.

If you prefer to make your User library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.

Show User Library

You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.5. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

Below is an Apple support article which explains my previous suggestion.

Restore Mailboxes and their Content

I deleted my email mailbox by mistake from my iPhone 5s

Hook the iPhone up to your computer, open iTunes, and restore your last backup.

I have the same issue, and i have found my mail boxes through “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library/Mail/V2, but i don't have an option to retrieve it.

Please help, all my mails are gone..😢

Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.

In order for us to give your problem our proper attention to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac or iDevice you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question. Please remember to post in the forum relevant to your hardware or version of OS X. A full list of all the support forums is here:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

FWIW: I read the threads about using Time Machine. "Restored" the only mailbox I could find, which was the "mail.app" , then looked for the previously deleted mailbox and still could not find it. The mailbox that I had deleted was called "Tile". So, just for kicks, I looked for the content "tile" in the search window of my Mail and, voila, all of the content appeared! So I added a new mailbox and moved ALL the content to the new one........