Hi all OK, after a very traumatic couple of days with computers dying as a result of what I now know to be a very ugly incompatibility between Mountain Lion and a piece of software, (more on that shortly), I now need to know a couple of things regarding copying Mail the easy way between machines. I have copied /Users/Gordon/Library/Mail, /Users/Gordon/Library/Application Support over from one machine to the other, in the hope that I can get Mail to work as was without having to go through the pain barrier again. So, could somebody please tell me which other files/directories need to be copied or transferred in order to make Mail come up seamlessly when I execute the application? For example, is there anything in ~/Library/Preferences or ~/Library/PrefercePanes which needs to be included in the en-block dump in order to have Mail believe that it's running on the same configuration?
Now, to the ugly piece of software. I recently installed Paragon Software "Volume Snapshot" in the hope that I might get a Rollback-like configuration. That, I am sorry to say, was a massive mistake! Not only did the software screw things up so badly that the machine just sits there at power-on displaying the Apple Logo forever and a day, but there's no way to force the machine to restart at all. Not only that, but in my haste I concluded that the motherboard had died because the USB ports would not power up at all. Again, a huge mistake. Lynne and I went over to our new local Apple Store, and we purchased another Mac for me which was intended to be a replacement for what we thought was the dead MacBook Pro. I love the design of the new MacBook Air. Lynne said that I deserve the best and so she bought me a 13-inch 256GB MacBook Air. Shame it only has 4GB of RAM but I am sure we can do something about that. Anyway, to the point. When I got home I thought that out of desperation, I would try plugging in a firewire lead between what I bbelieved to be the dead MacBook Pro and the new machine. I had the foresight to also buy a Thunderbolt to FireWire 2 adapter. To our utter astonishment, when I tried to boot the MacBook Pro into Terminal mode, it came up right away on the new machine's volume list. At this point my heart sank. I had just inadvertently caused Lynne to agree to fork out over £1200.00 for the new machine and adapter. It wasn't necessary. Further, unless the macines are faulty you cannot return them once opened and registered because they cannot be re-sold once the software license for that machine is soiled. Again, to my amazement, when I confessed my error to Lynne, all she said to me was "Never mind sweetheart, just enjoy using it. Im sure we'll find a good use for the old machine." OK, so I tried migrating my settings over to the new machine and, when it came to restart time, the machine just sat there displaying the Apple logo, just like the MacBook Pro. So I had to go through the headache of reinstalling that machine as well, using Wifi networking. So now, anyway, I'm trying to make the transition as painless as possible. So, I am hunting around for the Paragon preference files so that I can try to remove them in the hope that the Pro will start up properly. Any help much appreciated. Please don't anybody make that mistake. I believed the board had died because the USB ports weren't getting any power. But now I understand why, the machine just couldn't see the hard drive at all. ------------------------------ This Message Was Written Using One Hundred Percent Recycled Electrons; Sent From Gordon's Third Generation iPad. You May Contact Gordon Privately At: <[email protected]> ------------------------------ <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
