This is a very helpful review of steps I have found for myself to work
several times in Erase Install and in migrating to new machines. I
offer a few modifications.
On Mar 28, 2:16 pm, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
Since this thread will end up archived somewhere, I thought I'd add
another
Since this thread will end up archived somewhere, I thought I'd add
another person's solution to this problem of Mail breaking after an OS
upgrade, that was sent to me. It's basically what I did myself, but
for anyone who needs to be walked through it, here is his solution,
step-by-step:
I've
On Mar 26, 10:47 am, Gary D. g.dea...@web.de wrote:
Re Mail Problems:
I am also having problems with Mail. New Mac mini, installed 10.5, ran
Migration Assistant, mail boxes empty, would not get mail, would not
quit, had to be forced to quit, reinstalled Mail, same situation.
I will try
On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Tom wrote:
Well, that fix wouldn't have worked for me, because I couldn't have
logged in as a guest--your Mac has to be on a network to do that,
doesn't it?
Creating and logging on as a new user would accomplish the same thing.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of
Kris, to answer your questions, this Mac that had all the Mail trouble
after the Panther upgrade is a dual 2.0 G5 with 8 GB of RAM. The
instructions that come with the upgrade don't specifically recommend
backing things up beforehand, although I agree that's always a good
thing to do. Likewise
I just upgraded from Tiger 10.4.11 to Leopard 10.5.6, and everything
seems to be normal in Leopard, except for Mail. When I open Mail,
although all my mailboxes are there, they're empty.
How do I get all my stored messages back into those mailboxes?
Tom
I'm working on it. Nobody here seems to have any ideas. Looks like I
might have to delete my e-mail account, set it up all over again, and
then try to import my old mailboxes from a backup copy of Mail from
the Library.
So this is the great Leopard, is it? What a mess, so far, with Mail
On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Tom wrote:
So this is the great Leopard, is it? What a mess, so far, with Mail
thoroughly screwed up by the upgrade.
I've been silent because, you are the first person I've run into with
this issue. I've updated about 20 systems with no problems other than
On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Tom wrote:
I'm working on it. Nobody here seems to have any ideas. Looks like I
might have to delete my e-mail account, set it up all over again, and
then try to import my old mailboxes from a backup copy of Mail from
the Library.
So this is the great
I didn't have any problems when I upgraded... I still have emails from
3 years ago when I first got my email account. You could just import
the mail messages from your backup, I believe it's stored in your
UsersLibraryMail (Folders with emails in them) That would be the
only thing I could
Thanks for the attempts to help, but I've now gotten finally got Mail
working, although all my incoming e-mail messages that were not
archived on the server are gone (because they erase old messages from
their server after a couple of weeks).
Here's what I did to get Mail working again: I called
Now to play around with Leopard and find out what else might be
broken. This is a disappointing upgrade, to say the least.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience.
After all this, I'm still not clear on stuff that should have been in
the original posting. I don't know the model, HD, RAM of
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