- #EMAIL FILE LOCATION FOR MAC MAIL ON YOSEMITE ARCHIVE#
- #EMAIL FILE LOCATION FOR MAC MAIL ON YOSEMITE PRO#
The IMAP protocol resolved the 'unable to access' and 'please enter your password' messages that Mail used to give me under the POP protocol. When I did, I must have found that Cox email now supports IMAP for residential customers and made the switch from POP to IMAP, inadvertently deleting the old POP email. The POP email protocol was lately prone to these 'unable to access' and 'please enter your password' messages and that's what prompted me to try to change my settings.
#EMAIL FILE LOCATION FOR MAC MAIL ON YOSEMITE ARCHIVE#
So I recovered the old POP emails into an separate INBOX and SENT MAIL archive that now sits again on my Mac in my Mail program, somewhere below the active mail folders I use daily.
The good news is that I was backing up somewhat regularly via Time Machine to an external drive. mbox files for the old archived files and so I think that I goofed and well and truly deleted the old POP emails when switching from POP to IMAP about two weeks back. mbox files that represent those email databases. Click on that Library folder to open it.įrom there, look for a sub folder called MailĬlick on that and see a sub folder called V2.Ĭlick on that and you'll find subfolders for the email accounts you've established, inside which are the. that reveals in the Go drop-down menu the hidden Library folder. I found the hidden Library folder where the mbox email files are located as follows:Ĭlick the GO command from the drop down menu and before clicking again press and hold down the option key.
(2) If I well and truly deleted the archive not only from my Mail program but also from my laptop, am I able to import my email archive from my external hard drive where it was backed up? I'd like to leave the archive in an archive folder in Mail so that I can see it and search it when necessary without having to plug in my external drive and also so there are two copies of this email archive.Īny advice you can provide will be very much appreciated. (2) How can I find out if my missing email archive doesn't exist somewhere else on my laptop right now and my Mail program can't find it. (1) Where does OS X store the Mail email files? I can't find any folder with an xbox file or any other file. Others would be deposited into the Sent mail folder in Mail as usual. This would only happen with some sent mail. In most cases, the recipients confirmed receipt. Sometimes when I would send mail, it would send, I'd hear the whooshing sound, but it would not store a copy of it in my sent email folder. This seemed to correct the retrieval errors I was getting before. When establishing the settings in Mail for the cox accounts, I left the feature on where Mail would leave the the emails on my Cox email server (which only uses 7% of its space currently). Doing so, I may have accidentally deleted from local storage (on my computer) my old archive of sent and received mail (going back to 2006).
I decided to delete the accounts and set them up again to see if doing so would grab the most current SMTP settings, etc. The Mail program would tell me that it was unable to access the account and suggest I enter my password. The Mail program would open up and look for the Cox Cable email accounts and variously fail to connect with any of them. Recently, there was some recurring difficulty retrieving the Cox emails.
#EMAIL FILE LOCATION FOR MAC MAIL ON YOSEMITE PRO#
Hi there, I'm having a bit of an email crisis.īackground: I have a MacBook Pro circa 2012 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with over 28 or 29GB of free space.įor email, I have a primary address through Cox Cable and some secondary Cox Cable email accounts for junk mail and the like.
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