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Saving Mail to OS X reinstall
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Where are the folders?
Excuse my ignorance, but I can't find the folders..?? Where are they?
While I'm asking you, is it the same with Safari bookmarks?
Thanks
Excuse my ignorance, but I can't find the folders..?? Where are they?
While I'm asking you, is it the same with Safari bookmarks?
Thanks
it is in your home folder. ~/Library/Mail.
backup your home folder and you should normally have everything you would need.
backup your home folder and you should normally have everything you would need.
Not in my mail folder
I go: Library/Mail/
then my only choice is/AccountTypes/com.mac.mailaccounts
then these choices
Japanese.lproj
English.lproj
da.lproj
Italian.lproj
zh_CN.lproj
sv.lproj
German.lproj
pt.lproj
mac.com.tiff
ko.lproj
Dutch.lproj
Spanish.lproj
MailAccounts.plist
zh_TW.lproj
no.lproj
fi.lproj
French.lproj
I still can't figure out where the folders are.
I go: Library/Mail/
then my only choice is/AccountTypes/com.mac.mailaccounts
then these choices
Japanese.lproj
English.lproj
da.lproj
Italian.lproj
zh_CN.lproj
sv.lproj
German.lproj
pt.lproj
mac.com.tiff
ko.lproj
Dutch.lproj
Spanish.lproj
MailAccounts.plist
zh_TW.lproj
no.lproj
fi.lproj
French.lproj
I still can't figure out where the folders are.
nilonilo
You are looking into the root level Library. Go to your Users folder, open your Home folder go to the Library folder in there.
You are looking into the root level Library. Go to your Users folder, open your Home folder go to the Library folder in there.
Yes, your home folder *is* your user folder.
If you restore the entire contents of ~/library/mail to the same location in the new user folder, you will have all of your mail and accounts.
If you restore the entire contents of ~/library/mail to the same location in the new user folder, you will have all of your mail and accounts.
Found it
I found it. Now I can't figure out why I couldn't see it before. Thanks to all for your help.
I found it. Now I can't figure out why I couldn't see it before. Thanks to all for your help.
It's called D.H.S. a particularly nasty but short-lived affliction affecting most computer users now & then.............
more commonly referred to as the "Duh-Huh Syndrome"
But dont worry, it isn't contagious and usually goes away in a few hours or so after taking a short break from the net
ps: the female/blonde strain is called DBS, or Dingy Broad Syndrome. (in case this applies to you)
While the Mail folder does indeed contain all of the messages that are in the mail box, simply copying that folder into the new User Liberary will not restore the mail box. There is another file that is needed. Assuming that the path to the mail folder is:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library/Mail
Then, if there are any downloads that are needed to be copied you need to also copy:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library/Mail Downloads
And you certainly will need to copy:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Of course you could simply copy the entirety of:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library
to the new user home on the freshly reformated HD, but that would carry with it a lot of the dead wood you were trying to get rid of in the reformating process.
I just went through the same agony and even the CSR at AppleCare did not know about the .plist file. But it contains all of the user info and the pointers to the message data base and is absolutly necessary for Mail to read the messages.
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library/Mail
Then, if there are any downloads that are needed to be copied you need to also copy:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library/Mail Downloads
And you certainly will need to copy:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Of course you could simply copy the entirety of:
Macintosh HD/Users/MyHome/Library
to the new user home on the freshly reformated HD, but that would carry with it a lot of the dead wood you were trying to get rid of in the reformating process.
I just went through the same agony and even the CSR at AppleCare did not know about the .plist file. But it contains all of the user info and the pointers to the message data base and is absolutly necessary for Mail to read the messages.