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Salut Micky

me thinks you are checking the wrong Library:

Macintosh HD/Library/Mail/ does not contain any user data
Check
Macintosh HD/Users/MyName/Library/Mail/
instead

Cheers
Andreas

In article <hbcmh99ki5dd96bg5vcv3oemgep4jgaf2e@4ax.com>,
 micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:02:29 +1100, dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <spghh9hfoljcobhe3e7v9iund4mmcdrqt4@4ax.com>,
> > micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Alternatively, he has SuperDuper, but he either could't find the
> >> external drive to look in it with Find, or he found it but couldn't find
> >> the Mail program or the Inbox.   Is there some trick to that?  
> >
> >
> >They might well be there. One thing to verify this, if the external 
> 
> Before we could do what you suggest, we made progress with Finder.  
> 
> In the left hand column were many entries, but one was I think MacDrive
> or HardDrive or something and 5 lines down was MacBackup.  
> 
> I started with the first one, (and maybe I clicked on Appications) and
> then on Mail, and maybe one more click and then it displayed the icon
> for the mail program and some statistics about it.  Then I clicked on
> See More and it gave the size and location.    The location was the main
> hard drive. 
> 
> Then I did the same thigns for MacBackup and when I clicked on See More,
> the size was the same, about 1.something Megabytes and the location was
> clearly given as MacBackup, something I missed two yearss ago when we
> were installing superDuper.  
> 
> 
> Then I started again with the two drives and clicked on LIbrary, then
> Applications or Mail (I forget) then something else, and finally it came
> down to 3 files, 2 of which were labeled 4K, and another that was also
> small.    This too was the same for both drives. 
> 
> 
> He had also suggested reading the backup from another computer, and
> since his friend with a Mac moved away, he suggested his PC netbook, so
> he downloaded Catacombae, and installed it and plugged the external
> drive into the netbook, and the format looked a little more like Windows
> format, but we never found more email.  The biggest file was 1 meg or so
> and he is missing maybe thousands of emails. 
> 
> 
> >drive is a bootable backup (as SuperDuper can do), start the machine 
> >up from the external and fire up the Mail.app program. Simplest way:
> >
> >* Shut the machine down. 
> >
> >* Start it up but hold the Option key down
> >
> >* Choose the external drive
> >
> >* Turn off the internet connection (so nothing comes in to confuse the 
> >situation)
> >
> >* Fire up Mail.app
> >
> >
> >Most of the stuff for Mail.app - on my Mac X OS at least - is stored 
> >in the user library under Mail and Mail Downloads folders.
> 
> In my today's reply to Patty, you'll see that using Finder I looked
> under Library and then under Mail and there were only 3 files there, all
> quite small, 4K for two of them.  I should have said that that alone is
> strange since he still has some email in in his inbox, and more arrived
> Thursday and Friday. 
> 
> Did you create "mail downloads", or should he have that too.  I didn't
> see it.   He had intended to create more mailboxes but hadn't gotten
> around to it.

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Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-06 13:12 -0500
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-06 13:29 -0500
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-06 18:46 +0000
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-03-06 18:49 +0000
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:29 -0500
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-06 13:56 -0500
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-06 20:26 +0000
        Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:03 -0500
          Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-08 15:16 +0000
          Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-08 18:02 +0000
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-07 09:02 +1100
        Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:21 -0500
          Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2014-03-09 10:46 +0100
            Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 18:06 -0400
              Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-09 22:44 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 20:19 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 00:35 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 22:13 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 15:18 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-10 14:19 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 18:52 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-11 02:10 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-11 02:00 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-11 10:57 +1100
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-11 01:59 -0400
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-11 22:36 +1100
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-11 12:26 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-03-12 07:09 +1100
                Google Groups (was Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-11 17:08 +0000
                Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:18 -0400
            Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 18:10 -0400
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-07 16:03 -0600
        Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-09 18:03 -0400
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-06 19:03 +0000
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-08 10:19 -0500
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-08 15:52 +0000
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-03-06 22:32 +0000
  Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-03-08 22:49 -0500
    Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2014-03-11 02:13 -0400
      Re: Inbox deleted accidentally How to restore. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-11 16:38 +0000

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