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: Roy Mendelssohn <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:05:50 -0800
Hi RIch:
Sorry for top posting. Long week. The Envelope files were there. So now I don't trust Time Machine. I will do a separate actual backup of Mail Folder.
-Roy M.
On Mar 4, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Trouton, Rich R wrote:
> 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:
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> 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:
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> ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/
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>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Roy M.
>>
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"The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA."
**********************
Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097
e-mail: email@hidden (Note new e-mail address)
voice: (831)-648-9029
fax: (831)-648-8440
www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/
"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected"
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