Apple Mail To Do List deleted! HELP!
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- BuddhaHat
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to help out a client here and they've deleted his To Do list, and only has a really old backup, has this ever happened to anyone?
Any advice?
Help is much appreciated.
- pascii0
iCal?
- pascii0
iCal?
- eating_tv0
Designer's Question #442:
My client has lost his To Do list, what do do?A: First off, bitch slap the idiot. If you're any kind of business person you treat your agenda, lists and contacts as your most valuable assets. They mean a lot. They are practically your excuse to sit their on your ass and do what bakers wouldn't call a job.
Then, bitch slap him again. Because apparently he's too stupid to even slightly remember a To Do list, on top of deleting it!
- yeah I agree, that won't calm this guy down at all tho, he's freaking :\BuddhaHat
- taxiguerrilla0
maybe he can help.
- pascii0
if it's ical, you may have backups on either iPhone, iPod or .mac or TimeMachine. if not, it's thin air. help him out with a backup-strategy for the future.
- BuddhaHat0
Yeah it's not looking good at this stage.
30 To Do items collected over 12 months, he is not going to be happy.
It's a POP account collecting from Gmail, I've told him to check Gmail Tasks, but I don't think they work together :\
- and yes I want to punch him repeatedly for not backing up. I don't need this right now, argh!BuddhaHat
- comicsans0
In your home directory there is a Library folder, inside that there is one called Mail. Any backups retained by Apple Mail will be inside there, you may need to use the command line to ensure you see everything. I don't use Mail so can't be more specific. Ask if you need guidance for how to (tell them how to) look. You are however unlikely to find anything.
Set the idiot up with a back scheme, charge 4 times your normal rate for doing this.
- comicsans0
^BuddaHat but keeping this more visible than comments.
For future reference if you do it very soon after a mistake then cmd-Z can undo a mistake, works in Finder and many, many apps. cmd-Z maintains a short history for the current session, so select stuff, accidentally delete it ... cmd-Z and all should be saved. However he is now probably screwed unless he is still in Mail and hasn't done much since the delete.