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Q: Importing old Apple.Mail data

Due to various and persisting problems, I had to reinstall 10.8.2.

 

Before this step, I created an image of the old system volume on another external disc.

 

The clean install worked just fine.

 

No I try to import old messages / folders from the old Apple.Mail. As last time, this step doesn't work as expected...

 

I get folders named A368644-7d6ds7s88 and so on. Not even a bit the old folder structure.

 

Could someone provide hints how to do this the right way?

Posted on Mar 9, 2013 2:45 PM

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  • by Ernie Stamper,

    Ernie Stamper Ernie Stamper Mar 10, 2013 3:45 PM in response to seaside
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    Mar 10, 2013 3:45 PM in response to seaside

    For reason similar to those you cite, I did NOT use Migration Asstant.  Rather, the Target Disk Mode allowed more direct copying than what I used to do, which was to use the Finder to transfer another volume, and then import from there.  More later.

     

    Ernie

  • by Ricky Egeland,

    Ricky Egeland Ricky Egeland May 28, 2013 1:53 PM in response to Ernie Stamper
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    May 28, 2013 1:53 PM in response to Ernie Stamper

    Ernie Stamper, thanks for the tip.  I had the same directory structure problem as seaside. (Described here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1524054)  Using the following procedure, I finally got my old archive mailboxes transferred from one machine to another.

     

    1. Boot machine from Lion installer on a USB stick
    2. Open Terminal
    3. Mount image of old machine with 'hdiutil attach'
    4. Copy with 'cp -rp' mailboxes from /Volumes/<old machine>/Users/<old user>/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes to my new install /Volumes/<new machine>/Users/<new user>/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes
    5. Reboot machine to usual boot volume
    6. Delete /Volumes/<new machine>/Users/<new user>/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope*
    7. Start Mail

     

    After a few hours of indexing messages the archive mailboxes appeared as normal.

     

    Re-indexing instructions:  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4801?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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