Mary Ann call me at home after 6 tonight. Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Mary Ann Sodrel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
