HELP! HTML email signature advice - where's the signature folder?

I am the Count wrote:

• So trying to follow the instructions for adding a HTML email signature but I can't find the Signature folder? Have I binned it by mistake or does it not exist anymore?

These are the instructions I found which I wanted to follow:

Locate the HTML email signature file

Open up a finder window

• Select your Macintosh HD folder

• Go to Users

• Select your username (If you cannot see the hidden folders, press cmd+shift+dot. Repeat this to hide them again if you wish)

• Open Library (a hidden folder)

• Then open Mail

• Find and open V7 (or whichever V folder is the newest)

• Next, open MailData,

• Now open Signatures

• Within this folder, there will be all your signature folders with random strings for their filename.

• Locate the newest one (this is the file you created in step 1).

The old instruction may no longer apply.

Many things have changed in Ventura... I see no current tutorial for HTML Sig for the macOS Ventura.

From your Finder>Go>Go To Folder, copy & paste:

~/Library/Mail/

The Ventura is the V10

if you are using iCloud Drive you can look here:

~/Library/Mobile Documents/

ref Create and use email signatures in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

iamthecount wrote:

Hi is this Ventura?

not on mine. As all chance when I was fixing another issue I might have deleted it altogether.

Ventura complete path—

From the Finder>Go>Go To Folder, copy & paste;

~/Library/Mail/V10/MailData/Signatures

We are having the same issues. After copying the ~V10/MailData/Signatures

folder from the Mac Mini being replaced because Mail wouldn't save any

new signatures and the folder did not exist; we had signautres though then had to go straight into the .mailSignature files

[/Users/<myuser>/Library/Mail/V10/MailData/Signatures/] themselves

to update using text edit to make any changes. Something is broken in

new Ventura installs.

Chipping in

There is a Signature Folder in " MailData " of User Library >> Mail > V10

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The Signature folder is located in you Home/Library/Mail/MailData/V10 folder.

iamthecount wrote:

hi tried that, and incidentally this folder wasn't in here earlier so I manually created it. Now it does find it but this is all that is in here?

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Did you try and restore you missing/replaced folder from your Time Machine backup...?

Watch this video as it solves the issue. By locking the file, it did not overwrite it anymore

https://youtu.be/fqSJIKdldFo

iamthecount wrote:

1 - Hi is this Ventura?

not on mine. As all chance when I was fixing another issue I might have deleted it altogether.

2- is there a way to reinstall Mail without losing all my settings

1 - Yes

2 - No

Apple Mail Application can neither be Removed ( Deleted ) nor Reinstalled as a Standalone Installer

Reason, Apple Mail Application is Built Into the Operating System

One can Reinstall the entire Operating System via the Recovery Mode and choose Reinstall macOS.

The above is often times referred to as " An in-place installation.

That being Installing Over the Existing installed Operating System.

Though, in this computers situation, the In Place installation would replace any corrupted elements of the System

This, I sense will not effectively resolve the existing issue - Mail Signatures issue

For that, I will defer to the More Learned Contributor on this, your issue

EDITED

This isn't the same as adding html formatted signatures like you used to be able to do. ;-(

Hi is this Ventura?

not on mine. As all chance when I was fixing another issue I might have deleted it altogether.

is there a way to reinstall Mail without losing all my settings

hi tried that, and incidentally this folder wasn't in here earlier so I manually created it. Now it does find it but this is all that is in here?

no, but will do that - great idea!

I've just looked in there and as you can see, its not creating it. Followed your video too...

https://streamable.com/ugfvog

Did you ever resolve this? I am having the same issue and no one is able to figure it out.