[Macpartners] Moving e-messages to a new Mac

[Marion Leeds Carroll]

Thanks, everyone!  I now have an idea of how to rescue those emails...
- Marion

On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Allan Doyle wrote:

> Mail lives in your Library. This message, for example for me, is in
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> /Users/adoyle/Library/Mail/IMAP-afdoyle at po12.mit.edu/INBOX.imapmbox/ 
> Messages on my mac.
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> There's a bit of an issue with Spotlight and Mail, I think. You can  
> force Spotlight to index messages if you do Mailbox->Rebuild but  
> there's no way to do it en masse for more than one mailbox at a time.
>
> I have no idea what happens if you import Eudora or mbox files locally
>
> I used to have years of email, too. I've found that it's harder to  
> keep a decent archive when using IMAP vs. POP. On IMAP, I feel like  
> I need to archive on both my laptop and my work machine and I have  
> not come up with a decent system for that yet.
>
> I found the move to Leopard to be a bit of a pain, but that had more  
> to do with all the stuff I use "underneath" like MacPorts.
>
> 	Allan
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> On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Marion Leeds Carroll wrote:
>> I have been storing email on my HD forever, because I use it for  
>> vital
>> "how-to" information, as well as for keeping a record of my  
>> activities
>> and my colleagues' addresses.  This goes back to my years with  
>> Eudora,
>> and my record-keeping is so formalized that when I moved from Eudora
>> to AppleMail, I set up the same "virtual filing cabinet" of emails on
>> my HD, rather than set up a whole new set of mailboxes on the server.
>>
>> I have a new Mac... a Leopard instead of a Panther... and I'm
>> struggling with moving things in.  My boss picked up the whole Mail
>> program for me (among other things) and dropped it into my Leopard...
>> but as the weeks go by, I'm finding there are important pieces of
>> email that got left behind.  I still have my Panther, and can find  
>> the
>> information on it... but eventually I'll have to give up the old cat
>>
>> I've been trying to figure out where the emails actually live on the
>> HD, hoping I can manually drag the files from one machine to the
>> other... but I can't find them.  Using the "Spotlight" search feature
>> doesn't help.  Does anyone know the answer?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Marion Leeds Carroll
>> MIT Libraries Web Assistant
>> mlcar at mit.edu
>>
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> Allan Doyle
> Director of Technology
> MIT Museum
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Marion Leeds Carroll
MIT Libraries Web Assistant
mlcar at mit.edu