Re: [Fed-Talk] [OT} Recovery and Restore Questions
Re: [Fed-Talk] [OT} Recovery and Restore Questions
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] [OT} Recovery and Restore Questions
- From: "Trouton, Rich R" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:58:27 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] [OT} Recovery and Restore Questions
Roy,
My answers are below your questions.
On Mar 4, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> For a variety of reasons, in Lion i had to go to my Recovery Partition on my hard drive, and both do a clean restore from a time machine image, and a reinstall of the OS. I have two questions I hope someone can help me with:
>
> 1. The Lion install image had to have been downloaded somewhere when this was down. I would like to find it and save it on a bootable dvd. Does anyone know where this was put.
The install image was likely removed after the installation. However, you can download it again using the method described at the link below:
http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=getting-lion-installers
>
> 2. After the restore, the Mail app had to re-import my mailboxes. This suggests that there is a database file stored somewhere that is not being backed up by time machine. Does anyone know what this file is and where it is stored? I would like to make certain I have it backed up.
The file(s) in question are the Envelope Index files. In 10.7.x, they're stored in the following location:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/
Thanks,
Rich
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Roy M.
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