My daughter wanted to transfer something from a flash drive into my G5, but when she plugged it into the Mac, the screen froze and I had to force-quit it. (I found out subsequently that the flash drive had gone through the washing machine in the pocket of a shirt, so it was not in the greatest operating shape).
Well, after a restart, Mail said that it had lost connection with all my stored e-mails (all the mailboxes were empty), and offered to restore them. I clicked OK, but shortly afterward it reported that getting the e-mails back into the mailboxes would take 14 hours, and then it got stuck. So I canceled that. Then I went to Mail > File > Import Mailboxes and navigated to the Home > Library > Mail > Mail file to import from. But the result was that, instead of filling up all the empty mailboxes with the old mail, as I wanted, it created a new mailbox among the empty ones named "Import," and inside of that mailbox were new copies of all the other mailboxes, all filled with the restored mail. So now I have all the original mailboxes, empty, plus a whole new set of full mailboxes inside the "Imports" mailbox. Which means I have to take each full mailbox out of the Imports folder and replace the empty one with it, and there are so many mailboxes that it's going to be a lot of work. If this should happen again, what would be the correct way to get all the e-mails back into the original mailboxes, instead of creating a whole new set of mailboxes inside of a new "Import" mailbox? Tom -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
