Macbook wont boot after TM restore.

Deyvy

Deyvy

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I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, but to cut a longer story short. I decided just to restore a TM backup as I didnt have the time to mess around with everything to get things as they were, specifically all my old emails.. I restored email in Time Machine and through migration assistant but it still doesnt show all my old mail.

But after I've fully restored, I restart as it asks. I see the apple logo, or that white screen just where it appears. Then a black border comes down, and in 4/5 different languages it tells me, its needs to be restarted by pressing and holding the power button.

I do that, but it just tells me again its needs to be restarted.

Googling I found this article, but just wanted some more advice beforehand really.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88218&st=0

I'm probably doing it wrong, but if somone knows how I can just get all myold emails back on a fresh install, thats probably all I need. That or if I can just get the restore to boot.
 
Ignore, its working now. I think maybe I messed up along the way with erasing partitions or installing it incorrectly. Restore worked this time... But advice regarding the restoring emails and settings on a fresh install would be appreciated.

Thank you
 
Regardless of who you have set up your email account with, your emails are hosted on their servers. This means you can download all of your emails back to your PC/Mac without having to restore them from a Time Machine backup :)
 
Hmm, you seem to be correct. Lol. I thought I had created additional folders on the email app. But it appears theyre sub folders on one of the email accounts.

Thanks.
 
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