My MacBook Pro had lots of old sw on it wand was running slow so I used Time Machine to back it up and the reformatted and re-installed 10.5.
During the re-installation, I was asked if I wanted to migrate all my user stuff from the Time Machine backup, but I declined: I didn't want to re-create my old slow environment.
After installation was finished I tried to recover from the Time Machine disk. However, Time Machine doesn't seem to recognise that there are valid backups on the disk.
SO I manually navigated through the directory structure and copied across the bits I wanted (photos, music, one or two apps). And this worked fine and has worked for the last two weeks.
What I haven't been able to do is recover my Mail. This would normally be a disaster, but nowadays I mostly use Gmail. But I do want to recover this Mail stuff; it has a five year archive. I can see the Mail app there, but dragging and dropping it doesn't work.
Is there some special pixie dust I need?
During the re-installation, I was asked if I wanted to migrate all my user stuff from the Time Machine backup, but I declined: I didn't want to re-create my old slow environment.
After installation was finished I tried to recover from the Time Machine disk. However, Time Machine doesn't seem to recognise that there are valid backups on the disk.
SO I manually navigated through the directory structure and copied across the bits I wanted (photos, music, one or two apps). And this worked fine and has worked for the last two weeks.
What I haven't been able to do is recover my Mail. This would normally be a disaster, but nowadays I mostly use Gmail. But I do want to recover this Mail stuff; it has a five year archive. I can see the Mail app there, but dragging and dropping it doesn't work.
Is there some special pixie dust I need?
