Hi, What is the best way to migrate all of my emails and mailboxes (and mailbox folders and subfolders) after a fresh OS install? My previous installation of Mountain Lion was acting really flaky (I'm assuming it was a bad hard drive). So I put a different hard drive in my Mac Pro tower and did a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I know transferring email is simple if I migrate my entire user account with Migration Assistant, but I did not want to transfer corrupted files.
Before reinstalling ML, I used the Export Mailbox option under the Mailbox menu in Apple Mail, which I assumed would create an archive of all my mailboxes and the emails within. Either this was a false assumption or else I could not figure out how to properly retrieve the information from the archive. I tried the Import Mailboxes under the File menu, first pointing at the folder containing my export and later pointing to the Mailboxes directory in ~/Library/Mail/V2, but neither worked. I was able to retrieve what seemed to be the containers for the mailboxes I had created, but I could not see any emails within them. I tend to create several mailbox folders, with both mailboxes and other subfolders within them. During the import, if I pointed to the last mailbox within the hierarchy, I could import those emails, but if I pointed to any location further back, I would only get folder names (or nothing). Needless to say, with many hundreds of folders, this took many hours and was m ind-numbing. I know there is a better way, but I could not find it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
