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Syncing old email between computers

I have an old eMac running Tiger (10.4) with a buch of of email files on it.

I'd like to move these files onto my current system, a MacBook running Lion (10.7).

Ohter than creating some temporary systems, using Leapord & SnowLeapord, to move the data

is there a simple way I can move these files onto the newer "Main" system so I can Retire the eMac?

Posted on Feb 4, 2012 10:40 AM

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Mar 3, 2012 2:50 AM in response to Julian Wright

A note about Migration Assistant. when you set up a new Mac, you need to run Migration Assistant before setting up a user account: then it will set up a user account with the same name as the one you are migrating from and transfer your Home Folder with all its documents and data, including preferences, so that you can resume work very quickly. (It's probably better not to let it migrate applications, but to do that yourself).


If you set up a user account first, when you run Migration Assistant it will create a new separate user account and migrate all the data to that, leaving your with the issue of having to transfer everything to the account you want it in.

Syncing old email between computers

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