ArchibaldTuttle
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Had to force quit mail. (Running Mail 4.5 on Mac Air OS 10.6.8).
It was locked up. When I tried to reopen it ran the setup assistant as if I had never run mail before and it didn't have my accounts or mailboxes for them.
This happened to me once before and I lost some mail before I finally figured out how to tell the program where my old mailboxes are. They are still there as .mbox files in my user library.
One problem is that I can't figure a way to skip the setup assistant and just open the program. Then I can probably browse around and figure out how to 'import' these mailboxes or rebuild the connections to them.
I flubbed my way through this the last time, but if there is a more scientific approach would appreciate a pointer. Found a bunch of threads describing the same symptoms but none of them seem to have been fully answered, and noone actually asked how to get by the setup assistant.
thanks,
brian
It was locked up. When I tried to reopen it ran the setup assistant as if I had never run mail before and it didn't have my accounts or mailboxes for them.
This happened to me once before and I lost some mail before I finally figured out how to tell the program where my old mailboxes are. They are still there as .mbox files in my user library.
One problem is that I can't figure a way to skip the setup assistant and just open the program. Then I can probably browse around and figure out how to 'import' these mailboxes or rebuild the connections to them.
I flubbed my way through this the last time, but if there is a more scientific approach would appreciate a pointer. Found a bunch of threads describing the same symptoms but none of them seem to have been fully answered, and noone actually asked how to get by the setup assistant.
thanks,
brian