AOL & Automator

I have delayed upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion (and iCloud) because I have a vast number of e-mail messages saved using AOL for Mac OS X, which is a PowerPC application that will not work with Lion. Now that MobileMe is set to expire in a few days, my time has run out. I want to save these messages, which are currently saved to my hard drive in AOL mail format, in text format (that is, "Save as" text, using the drop-down menu in the open/save dialog box). (The newer versions of AOL software which are compatible with Lion are unable to open the old AOL for Mac OS X mail messages, although they cann open them as text, as can Apple Mail.) I have many, many hundreds of these messages. Is there a way I can use Automator to save them in text (versus "mail") format in one fell swoop? They are all saved to various subfolders (by correspondent's name) within a large "E-mails" folder. Please note that they have been saved as individual mail messages to my hard drive, and are no longer in my AOL incoming mail cabinet or personal filing cabinet, so that I can't simply import them from that cabinet into Apple Mail. And as they're currently saved, Apple Mail can't read or open them until they're re-saved as text. I have never used Automator before, and tried to experiment using Record, but whenever I choose "Save" or "Save as" from within AOL, the Automator window disappears and the Recording stops. Perhaps it thinks I am trying to "save" the Automator workflow, rather than trying to record the saving of a file in the Finder? In the alternative, if there is some easy way to simply convert these saved AOL files into Apple Mail files, that would be great, too, but I don't think there is. Can anyone help? I only have eight more days until MobileMe expires and I have to upgrade to iCloud and therefore to Lion, which will render these needed files unreadable in their current form, so I am desperate. Thanks very, very much.

Hi RobHicksUK!
I haven't started using Automator yet, so I don't know if this will help, but looking at the preset Mail automations, it appears that it might help, to first configure the Apple Mail application, for AOL Mail.
You can do that with this utility AOL Services Assistant.
I think then, there may not even be a need to load, or log in to the AOL Client.
Just a thought. What do you think?
ali b

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40 Comments
Chucho
May 13th, 2008 at 11:11 amThanks it’s a great hint, you should post it in macosxhints.com
Westin
May 19th, 2008 at 3:28 amAwesome content and great instructions even for stupid people like me. Thank you so much for posting this. It worked like a charm and really is appreciated at 2:30 a.m. after hours of reinstalling junk.
Slippery Snake
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 amThis worked. However, I had three email accounts, and it only imported one. My Smart Mailboxes were not imported either.
Jon C
July 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pmIf you have multiple mail accounts, you should also restore the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file as well. This will ensure all of your account settings are imported.
Joseph Hurtado
August 26th, 2008 at 11:23 amRaffy,This tip is worth it’s weight in gold! Thanks so much for posting such a well though out recipe for a Mail Rescue operation.Just put Jon’s advice on the article, that is also very valuable!Take care,Joseph Hurtado
from Toronto
Cory
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 amYou saved my life! Thanks!
Drew
January 19th, 2009 at 12:08 amCheers Great tip! Thank you very much for your time!
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May 23rd, 2012 at 2:00 pmStill working in May of 2012! Thanks so much!
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May 29th, 2012 at 11:11 amIm getting a teeny problem. I cant get my reader to pick up your feed, Im using bing reader by the way.
Bruno Zysman
May 31st, 2012 at 4:56 pmThanks so much for this tips
I could get back my 170 000 mails in 5 hours thanks to this post, after having tried for few hours without success…Bruno

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