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> 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.
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