Apple mail doesn't read imported mbox emails

Hi
I had a massive crash on my HD MacBook Pro. Technical support were not able to recover my data. Somehow with a friend's help I managed to copy apple mail's archive mbox file onto my Desktop. I was really happy with the possibility of having all my data back but...
I was using Mavericks already when I stored the emails on that parent folder so I tried to import that big mbox file (5.82 GB) but AppleMail didn't recognize it (error: no mbox file found) neither the AppleMail import option seemed to work even though it announced that an "imported" folder was created on Mail's side bar - something that I was not able to locate not even on a Finder search.
I tried a few tricks like copying the files to the same location. All folders suddenly appeared but... no emails were shown.
I tried installing Thunderbird in hope to import and export a new file but it didn't work
I called Apple's support but after half an hour they didn't seem to overcome the problem.
So I have this big problem of compatibility that is stopping me from having all that info back on sight.
One last note:
Last night I was desperate about a certain info stored in one of those emails so I went through the folders one by one and opened a lot of emails until I found the info I was looking for. I guess this proves that all data is still intact.
Any tips to overcome this stressful relation with Apple Mail?
Thanks

thank you now everything works
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