iMail and TM

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I don't know much about iMail or Time Machine (I own a Mac but use neither), however a friend has recently taken a TM backup, and upgraded his 2010 MBP to a 256GB SSD and then restored from the TM backup. Everything is working fine except he has a number of folders within iMail that are still present but the emails are missing from them.

Personally I'm at a loss as to understand how the HDD upgrade has done this.

The only thing I can think is that the emails in these folders were from a Yahoo email account that he no longer has setup (it was removed from iMail months ago due to it constantly sending spam) and he has replaced it with a Gmail account.

Before the HDD upgrade the folders were full of emails, now they are empty.

Any ideas?
 
Your theory sounds likely to me. Easiest way for him to tell would be to log into his web mail for Yahoo, and if the mails he's expecting to find are still there...

He could also access TM from Mail and scroll back in time to a period where this account was in use, and in theory restore individual mails or folders if he so wished.
 
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