Migrating emails/adresses from iCloud, and from a very old Mac

[Cham2000]

I'll have a new Mac mini M2 (with Ventura installed on it) during the following weeks. But then I have two problems:

1. I don't own a recent Mac nor an iPhone. I have a 5 years old iPod (iOS 12.5.7), with emails and adresses info saved to iCloud. Is it possible to migrate all the data stored on iCloud to the new Mac? How? I believe that it's not currently possible.

2. I have a very old Mac (12 years MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.8). I have lots of old emails that I would like to save on an external disk, and then port to the new mini. Of course, I'll want to be able to read the old emails with the Mail app on Ventura. So how can I migrate the old emails?

I don't think that the Migration Assistant will be of any use here, especially with the very old Snow Leopard Mac. But there's surely a way to export the emails into a package of some sort, then open it with the Mail app in Ventura. I may have a quarantine and/or codesign problem with the old emails package, I don't know!

 

[kitKAC]

1. Just sign into iCloud on the new machine. If everything is in iCloud, it'll sync.

2. How do you know that Migration Assistance won’t handle this? Use the tools you have, then if you have issues - look for solutions. (This also applies to your other thread as well).

 

[Cham2000]

2. How do you know that Migration Assistance won’t handle this? Use the tools you have, then if you have issues - look for solutions. (This also applies to your other thread as well).

It is well known that the Migration app will not work well if the two Macs are using very different OS (Snow Leopard vs Ventura !!). There are several articles on this subject, on the web. Using the Migration assistant in this case will most probably fail or introduce corrupted files. This is a well known issue. Since I'm already aware of the issues that will come, I'm already looking for solutions. This is why I'm asking the question here in the first place. Geez!

 

[kitKAC]

Just because it doesn’t work for one person, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work for someone else. And if it doesn’t, all you’ve lost is a little time.

Still worth a try.

 

[Cham2000]

Just because it doesn’t work for one person, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work for someone else. And if it doesn’t, all you’ve lost is a little time.

Still worth a try.

No, it is NOT worth the time and troubles to try it. I already know that it will fail.

I much prefer to try another method, by hand, to migrate all emails from the Snow Leopard's Mail to the new Mail of Ventura. I believe there's an export option to produce a big mail file, that should be dropped into Ventura's mail. Apparently, you don't know, or don't want to help.

 

[gilby101]

1. If you are using IMAP connection to a mail server, the emails are on the server and will be downloaded to the new Mac after you have configured the new Mail.

2. If not on a server. I can't remember exactly what SL Mail has, but Mail has an export function. Select a mailbox and and export it. Copy the files created to the new Mac and import. With current Mac, these actions are in the menus: Mailbox > Export Mailbox, and File > Import mailboxes.

 

[Cham2000]

2. If not on a server. I can't remember exactly what SL Mail has, but Mail has an export function. Select a mailbox and and export it. Copy the files created to the new Mac and import. With current Mac, these actions are in the menus: Mailbox > Export Mailbox, and File > Import mailboxes.

Okay, this should be easy. Thanks!

 

[DeltaMac]

Another possibility, if the Mail export from Snow Leopard Mail does not work, would be to update that system from Snow Leopard to (assuming a 2010 or 2011 MBPro) High Sierra. THAT system should easily go to Ventura on your new Mac.