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Mail file location & back-up

Would like to know the location of the files of 'Mail' - so that I can back them up.
Thank you

Ibook, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Jul 4, 2008 4:03 AM

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Posted on Jul 4, 2008 4:19 AM

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

The majority is in...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/

Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip... only the plist is separate.
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Jul 4, 2008 4:19 AM in response to Memoire

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

The majority is in...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/

Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip... only the plist is separate.

Mail file location & back-up

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