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Clean 10.6.8 or ML 10.8 and keeping all mail accounts intact

Over the past year or so the Mac Pro Twin quad Core 3.z Gh Xeon 2008 had been gettin gmore and more cranky.

Sys prefs keeps crashing when starting, light room freezes, lots of other apps often freeze too, with the spining beach ball of death. Once a week now or more I have to Press and Hold the power buttong as the whole system just locks, either in use or on shutdown.

Have Google'd the many and various problems tried many solution, all no good..Disk repairs and veryigy / permsiiosn ..deleting plists etc etc.

So looks like a complater reisntall is required.

ML does run on this machine, as I have isnstalled from disk on a partition on the Mac HD.

Machine has Four HDD.

The users Home Folders stored on a seperate HDD

How do I go about this and keep ALL my Mail settings and folders etc.

Can I jsut stick in the ML disk and let it upgrade all or will there be a massive headache in getting mail sorted and transfered across? When I did the previous ML install, it was a 'Standalone ' install on a seperate partition, and did not let it tinker with my Mail and user folders.

How do I go about this?

Thansk

Neil

Posted on Jun 17, 2013 1:25 AM

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Neil Paisnel Author

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Jun 22, 2013 11:04 AM in response to Neil Paisnel

There was only ONE single thing I liked about the ML mail app

they finally corected teh direction in which e-mails delete when you hit the delete key.

Neil Paisnel Author

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Jul 1, 2013 1:46 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

OK< so back to the original question.

How do I copy/import the old mail and mail downloads folder ocer from one instalation to another clean installation?

If I use Setup or Migration assistant, it copies the problesm adn constant ctrashes across as well.

On the clean install I created a New Use with the same name, User ID and UUID and copied the Mail and Mail Downloads folder from the old install over to the new install,

But on launching Mail, it starts as if it is a new, askiing to set up e-mail accounts etc.

How do I move the old mail over to the new system?

Neil Paisnel Author

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Jul 1, 2013 10:21 PM in response to Neil Paisnel

OK< got it myself.

I had tried many times as instructed on various sites..copying Mail foldrs, plist files etc..all never worked..

Ownership issues..my /Volumes/Users HDD had been set to 'Ignore Ownership'. I did this when I was very first on the Mac and wanted to view the iPhoto / Itunes librarys other users Documents from variosu users..and easiest way I found at the time was Ignore ownership.

I never put it back to the corect safe not ignore ownership as it all worked so well. I have three users, ..but all me or the girlfriend, and data is shared equally between all accounts..we only have seperate accounts to keep Mail adn Address book seperate,

So ignore Ownership has workd well for years.

All Solved..case closed..thansk for all the input.

Clean 10.6.8 or ML 10.8 and keeping all mail accounts intact