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MBP Crashed - cant erase disk - disk erase failed - couldn't unmount disk
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<blockquote data-quote="BSD Meister" data-source="post: 1429516" data-attributes="member: 257388"><p>Mail should be stored under the Users->(your Unix name)->Library->Mail directory.</p><p>If you navigate to that path, you'll see a folder named "Mailboxes" and everything under that should be where all your mail is stored.</p><p></p><p>I'm confused about whether or not the data actually transferred to the MBP. If it got to 0.05% and then stopped then it's probably drive related and the reformatted will (hopefully) clear that up. If it transferred all your files, then the drive isn't the problem. Zeroing the drive shouldn't hurt it as if there are bad sectors it will remap the (if it's a hard drive). If it's an SSD then you've added one more write cycle to their life. </p><p></p><p>It really sounds to me more like you have some type of account problems. On an OS X system, you can't just change your name and ID and have access to what existed on another account. For example if you created an account called "user1" and started doing backups, then changed it to "user2", I'm not really sure how TimeMachine would handle that (I don't use it...I use custom rsync scripts to do my backups).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSD Meister, post: 1429516, member: 257388"] Mail should be stored under the Users->(your Unix name)->Library->Mail directory. If you navigate to that path, you'll see a folder named "Mailboxes" and everything under that should be where all your mail is stored. I'm confused about whether or not the data actually transferred to the MBP. If it got to 0.05% and then stopped then it's probably drive related and the reformatted will (hopefully) clear that up. If it transferred all your files, then the drive isn't the problem. Zeroing the drive shouldn't hurt it as if there are bad sectors it will remap the (if it's a hard drive). If it's an SSD then you've added one more write cycle to their life. It really sounds to me more like you have some type of account problems. On an OS X system, you can't just change your name and ID and have access to what existed on another account. For example if you created an account called "user1" and started doing backups, then changed it to "user2", I'm not really sure how TimeMachine would handle that (I don't use it...I use custom rsync scripts to do my backups). [/QUOTE]
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