User profile for user: Timothy Miller
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All my Internet Accounts Disappeared

I normally have about a dozen email accounts, because I have my own domain name with several email addresses, two ISPs, each with a few email addresses, a gmail address, an Apple address, and so on.


A few minutes ago, when I tried to check my email, these email accounts were all gone, inbox almost empty. Normally, there are a few thousand messages archived in my inbox. Investigating, I find none of my email accounts appear in System Preferences: Internet Accounts.


I rebuilt permissions, checked the hard drive, restarted. All seems well. I can't understand how this could have happened. I was able to restore one of my gmail addresses and my iCloud address, but I don't use these accounts much.


All my emails, and probably other account information, are still on the hard drive in MyAccount: library: Mail:V2


I can't understand how or why this happened. Nothing like this ever happened before. The machine works fine in other respects. Yosemite 10.10.3, a late 2009 MacBook with plenty of RAM. These accounts were working last night. I don't remember doing anything unusual.


I can probably restore these accounts, as I have records of email addresses, passwords and so on, but it will be laborious, and I'm worried the new accounts won't link up with the thousands of saved messages stored on the hard disk in library:mail:V2


I'm fully backed up on an Airport Time Capsule, but I've never restored from a backup device like this, and dread making a mistake.


Advice gratefully accepted. I might need a lot of it.

MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 8 GB RAM

Posted on Jul 7, 2015 11:12 PM

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User profile for user: arrambide
arrambide
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Feb 2, 2016 2:04 PM in response to Eric Root

Hey Erick...


exactly the same issue happened to me yesterday, but is the 3rd time in the last 5-6 months.. I don't know why..


-I use 4 or even 5 email accounts, all as IMAP so I don't worry about loosing emails BUT, what is this happening?, on the other way, I don't have airport time machine, I back up maybe one a month because right now the 95-98% of my work info is on Dropbox but even that, I don't know hoy you suggest to restore V2 folder, you mean just go to the back up folder in my external hard drive(where is backed up time machine), copy the entire V2 folder and then past on the hard drive of my mac?... and if so, I might need to find why one of that folder is corrupting from time to time isn't?


The previous time I had this problem, I just start over as a New MAIL and configurated the 4-5 emails account and as are on IMAP, started to download headers and all of that, I just need to Re-asign the signatures, etc etc, So everything is there, I don't Understand and how avoid this happen again i n the future..


Ill appreciate you comments.


regards

Roger

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User profile for user: Eric Root
Eric Root
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Dec 22, 2016 8:54 AM in response to mvinas77

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


Is the account set up in Mail? If not, try the below.


Try Mail/Preferences/Accounts /Account Information. Select an account, then go to Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP). From the drop down menu select Edit SMPT server list. See if the account is listed there. If so, delete the SMTP server for the account. Try to add the Mail account again.

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