Neil Paisnel
Level 1
(40 points)
Q: 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
Neil Paisnel
Level 1
(40 points)
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?
