Find emails in Finder using Time Machine?

[Chalgy]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: Exchange Hi-

I apologize but I really don't understand Entourage so bear with me. I had to erase and install everything on my Mac. I have many Time Machine backups of my Mac. I reinstalled Entourage 2008 and got it working with Exchange with no problems. What I am missing are the emails that did NOT sit on the Exchange server but rather were on my hard drive. Please tell me where (in my Time Machine backups) are the local emails located so I can drag them to *same* folder on my Mac. Hope this made sense. Thank you in advance for your help. It is truly appreciated.

 

[Chalgy]

More info ... Knowing that I would want to import the emails from my hard drive, I did an export before I erased and installed my hard drive. I saved a "database" file. I replaced my new database file with my exported database file hoping that my hard drive emails would magically appear. This did not happen. : ( I tried to import the database to no avail. I just read that you can't import 2008 data into 2008. That seems strange. Typical Microsoft, I guess.

 

[Diane Ross]

I have many Time Machine backups of my Mac. I reinstalled Entourage 2008 and
got it working with Exchange with no problems. What I am missing are the
emails that did NOT sit on the Exchange server but rather were on my hard
drive. Please tell me where (in my Time Machine backups) are the local emails
located so I can drag them to *same* folder on my Mac. Hope this made sense.
Thank you in advance for your help. It is truly appreciated.

Entourage stores everything in the database file so it's not a simple one
step process to recover an individual item. If you need to restore a single
item from a backup, follow the steps in this article:

Restore single item from backup
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/02/restore_single_item_from_backup.html
I also suggest you read the following:

Backup individual items
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/02/backup_individual_items.html>

Using Time Machine to backup Entourage basics:

It's advised by the developers not to let Time Machine backup your Entourage
database. If the database is copied while being used, the backup could be
corrupt. You can set the Time Machine to exclude the Microsoft User Data
folder and create an iCal event to copy it over at night while not in use so
you get one backup daily in Time Machine.

<http://tinyurl.com/aba7tl>


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Diane
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Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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[Karl_Schubert]

Diane,

I just tried to access the url: http://tinyurl.com/aba7tl and got a message that it couldn't be found on the server. Can you give another pointer, Please?

Thanks!

Karl.

 

[Karl_Schubert]

....or, is this the intended article?

http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/02/backup_entourage.html

Thanks!

 

[Diane Ross]

...or, is this the intended article?

http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/02/backup_entourage.html

No, it¹s this one...

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/alternative_method_to_use_entourage_
and_time_machine.html>

<http://tinyurl.com/2r79ll>

This forum wrecks long emails and I try to include the tiny url, but looks
like it got messed up too. <sigh>

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>

 

[Chalgy]

This info was very helpful! Thank you both!!!!!

 

[Karl_Schubert]

Thank you, Diane -- I have found those pages to be very helpful.

Karl.

 

[Diane Ross]

Thank you, Diane -- I have found those pages to be very helpful.

Nice to know they helped you. Thanks!!