Mac, iPhone and iTunes help Thread

[Lone_Par]

Agree, I use USB 2 for my MacBook Air with a portable HD, no problems, however utilise FireWire with my external HD and iMac.

[RedRobin]

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Yep, FireWire for 2 static external HD's: backup and music samples library and I also have a LaCie 100 GB portable which has FireWire 400 and 800 and USB ports.

Best not to buy a secondhand portable HD - You don't know how roughly it has been treated etc.

[monte]

More help needed from the computer gurus please 

I recently upgraded to the Mountain Lion OS.

Just checking my emails and I noticed on the left hand side under Archive Emails, I had 2 folders called "On my Mac".

In there were all my subfolders with emails I wanted to keep 

All the same sub-folders/emails were in both "On my Mac" folders.

So stupidly I thought it would be ok to delete one of them. 


Well its deleted both folders with all my archived emails. 



Anyone know how to retrieve the emails???

 

[vRS Carl]

Do you use time machine?

[RedRobin]

Do you use time machine?

....Anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Macs is going to be convinced we have the powers of Dr Who.

[vRS Carl]

Do you use time machine?

....Anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Macs is going to be convinced we have the powers of Dr Who.

Who says we don't   

[rich83]

Do you use time machine?

....Anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Macs is going to be convinced we have the powers of Dr Who.

Unfortuantly its not that good 

[RedRobin]

Do you use time machine?

....Anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with Macs is going to be convinced we have the powers of Dr Who.

Who says we don't   

....Well, we know that you do, Carl! One minute you're down south and the next minute you're up north. 

But to get back on topic, I've heard it can be very difficult to retrieve deleted emails - The Mac OS has far more layers hidden from the user than it used to have. Time Machine is a good first port of call perhaps.

Otherwise, as Mountain Lion is new, don't users get 90 days free TechSupport for it and so it's worth phoning Apple?

[monte]

Thanks Robin, I'll give Apple a call tmrw 

Not been using Time Machine 

[vRS Carl]

With time machine it's very easy to recover a deleted email. I've done it a couple of times. There are plenty of instructions online but you basically recover the mail data folder from before you deleted the mail.

But obviously you need to be using TM in the first place 

[Hedge]

Mmmm I smell a fail. 

[vRS Carl]

Carlo.

Start using time machine. For future reference you recover this file from an earlier time and it restores all your mail again.

library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

Their is a full tutorial here which mentions recovering deleted mail as well.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6918979_restore-particular-email-time-machine.html

[RedRobin]

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You can choose to have Time Machine run every hour automatically or simply backup with it manually everyday or week as you wish. I use it manually because it can interfere with using a highly intensive App like Logic and also the external hard drives make an unwanted sound which a recording can pick up.

I would strongly advise backing up with Time Machine before installing any OS and also backing up immediately after installing and checking for updates.

[monte]

   

I know guys…… Ive been meaning to buy another External hard drive for Ages now   

I always seem to spend my cash on other things. 

[rich83]

have you tried...

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