Mail messages, stored where?

[jknight8907]

Okay, here's the story: I cloned my PB's hard drive to an external hd, and did a clean install of tiger. Now, I need my emails back. Where do I find them in my cloned drive?

[HexMonkey]

Mail stores most of its data (including mail) in ~/Library/Mail, where ~ is your home folder.

[jknight8907]

Ut oh. I don't have a 'mail' folder.......i take it this isn't good?

[mad jew]

You click on the face in your Dock and then go into Library and there's no Mail? Not even a Mail Downloads? :(

[jknight8907]

Yeah, I've got it there. It's just not present on my cloned backup HD.

BTW, where are Safari favorties stored?

[HexMonkey]

Make sure you're looking in the right Library folder (there are several). On your cloned disk, are you looking in /Users/[username]/Library/ or /Library/ (you want to be looking the the former)?

Safari bookmarks are stored in ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist.

[jknight8907]

Whew. I was looking at the wrong one.

thanks!

[andyfroiland]

I just reinitialized my mac and reinstalled my system, I saved my mail folder out of my library and when I drag it back into my new library folder the mail program does not recognized it and wants to start as if I am a first time user.. any help from the mac gurus whould be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!