Re: new installation of leopard

[Cheryl Homiak]

I don't think the Migration Assistant fine tunes your choices enough to 
only copy your mail folders. Sometimes copying an actual application 
straight from your old installation would probably fail because there have 
been changes. It seems to me, though, that in a lot of cases you could 
copy data folders without a problem. When I couldn't compile the version 
of screen needed for brltty on leopard, I copied the compiled binary from 
my Tiger install; this did work but there was no guarantee. Of course that 
wasn't a Macosx component per se. But if there haven't been changes in the 
structure of mail folders between Tiger and Leopard, I would think you 
could do that. If it fails, even if it messes up your install, the worst 
thing that could happen would be that you'd have to reinstall and use the 
migration assistant and let it copy all your user info. If you don't mind 
it copying all your user info and settings, then just go ahead and use 
Migration Assistant in the first place.

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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."