Missing folders after Migration

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Missing folders after Migration

I used MA to move my files to my new MacBook Pro (Mojave) from my iMac (mid-2011 High Sierra).

Mail on the MBP opens and works. However, the many Mail folders I had stored "On My Mac" do not show up. Through an earlier question I was helped to see that the .mbox files have transferred. I have a lot (several hundred) of folders (some with attachments) since I've been using Mail to organize some parts of my life for many years.

Is there a way to get these back into Mail in the way they were organized on my iMac? I'm really concerned about messing this up.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Feb 2, 2020 11:57 AM

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TJM-Tom Author

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Feb 3, 2020 6:30 PM in response to Lowlander

Thanks very much. It took a while and there appear to be some minor inconsistencies. But with 180 folders/subfolders and 34,000 messages, I can live with it.

For anyone reading this in the future, a note: Be sure to expand all the folders/subfolders so the whole tree is visible before selecting all. My first try resulted in only exporting the top level folders of the tree. Bummer. I had to start over from scratch.

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Feb 4, 2020 2:26 AM in response to TJM-Tom

Hi,

That's an important addition indeed:

Two days before yours my experiences were similar, I first forgot to open all folders and subfolders before selecting them and ended up with only copies of the top folders... Sorry, I should have mentioned this.

I'm glad you've got it running now.

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Feb 3, 2020 12:39 AM in response to TJM-Tom

Hi,

Do you still have the iMac? If so, launch Mail, select all mailboxes and export them to an external drive. Connect this to your MacBook, launch Mail and choose ‘import mailboxes’.

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