On May 11, 2014, at 7:13 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
> on 2014-05-11 15:19 Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote >> Hi Steve, >> >> Well, that's what I thought as well, but it did not work in my current case. >> As I mentioned in my original post, this did not capture any mailboxes that >> were in mail folders (and subfolders). If all of my mailboxes were at the >> top level, it probably would have worked fine. But I have a lot of things >> like, for example, Apple/hardware, Apple/software, etc. In fact, I have >> some directories that are 3 or 4 layers deep. Any mailboxes within such >> subfolders were not retrieved. > > sorry - i didn't read to the end after you mentioned Export, assuming that > paragraph was all about exported mail not importing well, so i didn't see you > had used the more direct import approach > > i have used Mail's Import on Thunderbird mbox files and (old) Mail mbox > files, but i don't think i've used it on the newer maildir-like folders > > in a quick test (on 10.7, btw) i am getting null results attempting the > latter type of import from a copy of some of my own Mail store; Mail finishes > suspiciously quickly on a 34 MB multi-folder archive, tells me to look for > results in a mailbox called Import, but there is no such mailbox; here is > someone else reporting the same behavior, but no solution: > > <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6069491> > > i recalled an old way of doing this and it seems to work (again, on 10.7): > copy the old original mail folders (from the old V2/Mailboxes/) to the new > V2/Mailboxes/ then relaunch Mail; for me, the mailboxes appeared under On My > Mac, but were empty until i individually selected them and chose Mailbox > > Rebuild; then all the messages appeared > > although i had renamed the top level mailbox, but it took it's old name based > on the info.plist file; if i deleted info.plist before launching Mail, the > mailbox didn't appear; i haven't extensively tested this or looked for > references on the technique Yes, I got that same result -- it said to look in Import, but there was no such folder. Later I found a way to trick it, but it took many, many hours to handle all of my mail folders. I would first select all the contents of the mail folder (in Import), then get the missing Import folder, then I would try importing again and this time the mailboxes within that mail folder would show up and I could select them and import them (and the Import folder then showed up). I had to do this separately for every subfolder, and I had hundreds of them. I did not think about trying to rebuild. There were several times where folders looked empty, but they ook a long time to delete, so I suspected there were hidden files. Perhaps a rebuild would have solved the whole problem, and in much less time. Thanks for the tip. Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
