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HOWTO - Properly Re-Import Old Mail to Mail 2 (for clean-installs & archive-installs)
- Thread starter btoth
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There is a lot a problems around this. What works best is to quit Mail and manually put the old mail file in the new folder at Users/Username/Library/Mail or Users/Username/Library/Mail/Mailboxes - I forgot since it is months ago since I did it. Just Google for more info about this.
I had the same problem : a good carbon copy of my 10.3.9 System on a Firewire HD;
a clean install of Tiger on my iBook-G4 and migration nights.
Mail 2 would only import empty folder out of my old ~/library/mail folder !
at the same time, any Mailboxe creation (+) was stopped by an error message !
AppleHelp says it is a permission problem,
so I corrected a copy of the old Mail-folder autorisations, with getInfo and 'apply inside' button, and filled Read & Write for user, group and other it did not help.
But a simple Solution is to remove only 1 file :
On the Tiger drive, go to /users/~userName/Library/Mail/ ;
Remove the file : Mailboxes ; which is a file at that time, and not a folder as in Jaguar.
Restart Mail (2.0) to import your Mail !
it works.
NB : you still may have to proceed one mailboxe at a time;
and use the "Import : Other" option rather than ": previous Mail app."
I first saw this tip at <Mail 2.0 [Archive] - AppleInsider> :
<http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-53558.html>
Now that everybody is waiting for Leopard, it's a late tip anyway.
Procast
a clean install of Tiger on my iBook-G4 and migration nights.
Mail 2 would only import empty folder out of my old ~/library/mail folder !
at the same time, any Mailboxe creation (+) was stopped by an error message !
AppleHelp says it is a permission problem,
so I corrected a copy of the old Mail-folder autorisations, with getInfo and 'apply inside' button, and filled Read & Write for user, group and other it did not help.
But a simple Solution is to remove only 1 file :
On the Tiger drive, go to /users/~userName/Library/Mail/ ;
Remove the file : Mailboxes ; which is a file at that time, and not a folder as in Jaguar.
Restart Mail (2.0) to import your Mail !
it works.
NB : you still may have to proceed one mailboxe at a time;
and use the "Import : Other" option rather than ": previous Mail app."
I first saw this tip at <Mail 2.0 [Archive] - AppleInsider> :
<http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-53558.html>
Now that everybody is waiting for Leopard, it's a late tip anyway.
Procast
cave swallow
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My family techies backed up my files before installing Tiger.
I've tried to import the mbx files without success. I've tried the suggestions on this thread. I believe I have a problem because only mbx files were saved rather than the Library files.
My only back up is a cd with a list of document files, photos, and mbx files.
What do you suggest?
Thanks in advance.
I've tried to import the mbx files without success. I've tried the suggestions on this thread. I believe I have a problem because only mbx files were saved rather than the Library files.
My only back up is a cd with a list of document files, photos, and mbx files.
What do you suggest?
Thanks in advance.