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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1832672" data-attributes="member: 396914">@royapei, I don't think anyone has &quot;spoken down&quot; to you. We simply are trying to get more information about what is going on and why your system is, apparently, not working like our systems do. Which is why I keep asking &quot;What does that mean?&quot; So far, all you have said is, basically, your mail is gone and you can't find it in Time Machine, either because it's not there, or you haven't found it. Ian gave a great series of images for you to see exactly what you need to do to get to any email backup you may have. Did that work to help? Did your system show the same kind of images as his did? Did any of the missing folders show up there?&nbsp; One thing to think about is that the more backups you have and the further you have to go back in time the longer it takes TM to display what it has. That phenomenon is caused by the way TM builds the backup, using lots of links that have to be chased down before it can show you the backup. So when you step back in time in Time Machine, remember to be patient and let it build up the data it needs to show you the data it has.EDIT: While I was typing you posted this: May I ask what the &quot;it&quot; is that shuts down? Mail or Time Machine? Does Time Machine work if you open it NOT in Mail? Do you get any error messages or messages at all? NOTE: I just tried it and when I opened TM with Mail open, when I left TM Mail was closed. I suspect that happened so that TM could write the data into the locations where the Mail is stored without competing with Mail for that same space.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1832672, member: 396914"] @royapei, I don't think anyone has "spoken down" to you. We simply are trying to get more information about what is going on and why your system is, apparently, not working like our systems do. Which is why I keep asking "What does that mean?" So far, all you have said is, basically, your mail is gone and you can't find it in Time Machine, either because it's not there, or you haven't found it. Ian gave a great series of images for you to see exactly what you need to do to get to any email backup you may have. Did that work to help? Did your system show the same kind of images as his did? Did any of the missing folders show up there? One thing to think about is that the more backups you have and the further you have to go back in time the longer it takes TM to display what it has. That phenomenon is caused by the way TM builds the backup, using lots of links that have to be chased down before it can show you the backup. So when you step back in time in Time Machine, remember to be patient and let it build up the data it needs to show you the data it has. EDIT: While I was typing you posted this: May I ask what the "it" is that shuts down? Mail or Time Machine? Does Time Machine work if you open it NOT in Mail? Do you get any error messages or messages at all? NOTE: I just tried it and when I opened TM with Mail open, when I left TM Mail was closed. I suspect that happened so that TM could write the data into the locations where the Mail is stored without competing with Mail for that same space. [/QUOTE]

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