# OSX - mail backup folders

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275 "2021-01-29T19:53:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![p31415](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@p31415](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/p31415)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275/1 "2021-01-29T19:53:21Z")

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Hi all:

I notice that Kopia is not able to backup folders that can access only root , I.E

~/Library/Mail/

Is there anyway of backing up those folders?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![budy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/budy/32/38_2.png) [@budy](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/budy)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 10:01am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275/2 "2021-01-30T10:01:23Z")

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Well… in your home folder, there shouldn’t be any files owned solely by root or any other account anyway… you’d better fix that.

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**Author:** ![p31415](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@p31415](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/p31415)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 8:32am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275/3 "2021-02-01T08:32:03Z")

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Hi:

This is default on mail config on OSx. This is the way OSx configures this for their apps (included mail.app).

Actually, I’m looking for backup mail.app email content.

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**Author:** ![mrwonka](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/mrwonka/32/16_2.png) [@mrwonka](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/mrwonka)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275/4 "2021-02-01T10:07:12Z")

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Do you have “Full Disk Access” granted to Kopia in the Security & Privacy - Privacy tab in System Preferences? You might need to grant it to the Server binary (kopia) and the KopiaUI application.

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**Author:** ![p31415](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@p31415](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/p31415)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275/5 "2021-02-01T17:17:38Z")

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Hi:

I already tried this. The main issue is that I can do it with KopiaUI… but I cannot do it with Kopia binary.

I’ll try to follow this steps ([Manually Granting Applications Full Disk Access in macOS Catalina – Tech Otaku](https://www.tech-otaku.com/mac/manually-granting-applications-full-disk-access-macos-catalina/)) and I’ll post results.

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**Author:** ![p31415](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@p31415](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/p31415)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/osx-mail-backup-folders/275/6 "2021-02-01T20:37:33Z")

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Hi:

Didn’t work.

I was able to give full access but snapshots are still on zero bits.