Transferring Mac OS X 10.6 Mail to New Hard Drive

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Transferring Mac OS X 10.6 Mail to New Hard Drive

Hi,

I've put a new 500gb drive in a macbookpro, done a clean install of Snow Leopard. What's the best way of importing my old mail & settings (gmail/yahoo pop) from my old drive (now in an external enclosure).

many thanks

Posted on Feb 6, 2011 2:20 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 10, 2011 1:51 PM in response to radio babylon

Go to your Home folder on the old drive, and in its Library, copy both the Mail folder and the com.apple.mail.plist file from the Preferences folder in the same Library. Transplant those to the analogous location in the new Home folder, replacing any that you may have caused to be created there.

When you launch Mail, it will find both sets of data, and you will pick up where you left off with the old drive. You can also do the same with the Address Book -- Home/Library/Application Support/Addressbook folder.

Ernie

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Answer 2

Feb 10, 2011 1:51 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

Cheers Ernie, thanks for the info, worked perfectly & all back to normal again.

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