• Anders Fager / Gottick <[email protected]> Apr 18 04:09PM +0200
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• In the Mail-app. Any one has the slightest ide where the actull
file is? I like to move it from computer A to computer B.
•
Anders,
Your Inbox, Sent, and Trash mailboxes are not on your computer. Any messages
in those mailboxes are in your Internet Service Provider's storage facility.
If you haven't deleted your mail messages from your ISP, or have not copied
them to your own computer ("On My Mac"), then some or all of them should still
be on your ISP's storage facility.
Any messages that you have copied to mailboxes that you created under "On My
Mac" are in mailbox folders located in
/User/MyUserName/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. Each message is a separate file
within its Mailbox folder.
In Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier, you can easily find your messages by looking in
your own Library for Mailboxes, as explained above.
In Lion (OS X 10.7), the user's Library is hidden by default, so the Mailboxes
are also hidden. There are simple ways to defeat this, either temporarily or
permanently. Be warned that Apple discourages this, as many people have messed
up their computers by making changes in Library; that is probably why they have
hidden Library in Lion.
To show the Library and its contents temporarily, pull down the Finder's Help
and enter Library; move your cursor onto the line that shows the word
"Library". The Go column will then show Library with a big blue arrow; double
click on Library. To change Lion's default so that the Library is always
shown, see (for example)
<http://fairerplatform.com/2011/07/how-to-library-visible-mac-os-x-lion/>.
If your interest is simply to move Mail messages from one computer to another,
your best and safest method is to use Mail's Export command on Computer A and
the Import command on Computer B. (Note that in Mail.app v3 and earlier, the
Export command is called "Archive mailbox…".)
Mel Halbert
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