Hi Mark, The mailboxes that I'm talking about are the ones that I created in the "ON MY MAC" section of the sidebar, to store messages on my hard drive.
Gregg On May 11, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Mark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably obvious, but I didn't see it explicitly mentioned in your > email, so just in case.... > > If your mailboxes are on the server (IMAP, gmail, iCloud, etc.) then you > don't need to migrate them. Just set up your account(s) again, and they'll > reappear. > > On May 11, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 wa s 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
