Non-Booting MacBook. Using a Linux USB, Where Is The Email Folder to Backup?

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  Hybroid on 10/01/2023 - 00:56

  +2

  Would maybe help if you specified which mail app. Assuming default Apple Mail:

  The emails are stored on the hard drive in the users Library folder which is a hidden folder. To access open the Go menu and hold down the option key, then navigate to the Mail Folder. The emails are stored in . mbox format within the subfolders

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    Geekomatic on 10/01/2023 - 05:27

    -4

    M: "Non-Booting MacBook. Using a Linux USB".

    Y: "To access open the Go menu and hold down the option key, then navigate to the Mail Folder."

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      Hybroid on 10/01/2023 - 05:34

      +4

      Ignore the middle sentence, it was a copied quote…

      The emails are stored on the hard drive in the users Library folder which is a hidden folder.

      The emails are stored in .mbox format within the subfolders

      See if you can access the hidden folder within the Library folder from your Linux boot and copy over the .mbox files.

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  duk242 on 10/01/2023 - 06:23

  +2

  It's usually in ~/Library/Mail
  Sometimes it's in the significantly worse location of ~/Library/Containers/ (Somewhere in there, you'll have to search for .mbox files to work out where exactly in there it is)

  (If you're not a *nix native, ~/ means /Users/[Username]/)

  Hope that helps :)
  Also I should add - just backup the entire user data folder. There's tons of stuff in there and the user will be like "Oh I had some videos/photos/whatever in there" ;)

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  o53djz7qTPY4der on 10/01/2023 - 08:00

  If you're using gmail/outlook, just log in via Thunderbird/browser and all your mail will be there.

  If you're using icloud, you will need to export your emails from your Mac. Alternatively, you can access icloud via the web. Others have told you how to copy/export your email.

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  jv on 10/01/2023 - 09:35

  +3

  User name does not check out.

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    CrispyChrispy on 10/01/2023 - 09:39

    You seem busy this morning on OzB JV

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      jv on 10/01/2023 - 09:42

      +2

      It's in the contract terms.

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  Geekomatic on 10/01/2023 - 16:50

  While I work more with Microsoft than Apple, I do know the general locations for email, which are not hidden and are not in the locations listed, hence the query.

  I thought I might hit on someone who'd also run into this before and could shed light as to why the mail is not in the standard locations. It may be that the corruption causing the disk repair failure has something to do with it.

  Thanks to those who tried to offer helpful replies. Appreciated.

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  ShannonN on 10/01/2023 - 22:56

  Non-Booting MacBook = I'd be looking at why its not booting first, you can grab another nac drive put in external usb and boot from that then maybe access your time machine backup IF you have used that to the other drive?