i am new to you—a few months—but I eagerly read everything. I joined because I got a new “Yosemite earlier this year and find it difficult in comparison to my OLD computer (iMac w/OS9.2 which I had for many years.—you groan, don’t you?). I have myriads of files on it I cannot transfer. I am having to recreate everything I do--though i can send a few things by e-mail. Certainly not spread sheets or data bases or rosters…… Mary Ann Sodrel
> On Nov 10, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Because I did a clean install of El Capitan, I needed to set Mail up from > scratch. This worked pretty well [1] for my email accounts, because they are > all IMAP accounts. I cannot figure out, however, how to get the 'On My Mac' > mail back. > > I went to my backup of Mavericks, and found ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes, > which contains all the mailboxes which were listed as 'On My Mac'. When I > tried to import the mailboxes as Apple Mail, Mail threw up its hands in > dismay and said that it could only partially import some of the mail.... > meaning that there was lots and lots of missing email. On top of this, there > were submailboxes with informative names such as > '3D18984C-420D-4DC1-804E-C0987E4F302B', with messages buried deep in a series > of numbered submailboxes. In other words, Mail could not import its own > steaming pile. > > I tried copying the old ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes folder to another > location so that I could mess with it with impunity. I cleaned out items > which were I could see I did not need, and tried importing again. This time I > got no error message, but I still got the same jacked-up import with bizarre > submailboxes and missing emails. When I look through the > ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes folder hierarchy, I can see that there are emails > which are not being imported from their deeply buried subfolders. > > I spent time googling and found multiple places giving advice to go buy > Emailchemy to convert the mail saved by Mail into something Mail can import > properly. I did need Emailchemy once before when Mac OS X 10.0.0.4 came out, > and Mail could not import the mail from Claris Emailer worth a toot, so I can > believe that this could work. [2] > > Has anyone here found a way to import locally-stored mail properly without > resorting to buying a piece of software to do Apple's work? > > Bill > > [1] Aside from having to rebuild (aka re-download) multiple folders multiple > times. > > [2] This strikes me a really asinine, as one might think that Mail could > import its own mail properly from the version it had used for about 10 years, > but then I would be making the assumption that Apple would have any backward > compatibility when changing formats. Bad assumption. > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
