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Hi, we have a MacBook Pro that has no display currently (most likely fried video card). So it will be off to AppleLand for a week or more. We are cloning the entire system to an external hard drive just to be safe, but we're hoping Apple won't touch the hard drive.
The toughest decision is how to access and use Mail in that time without creating a synchronization nightmare when the system comes back. We could just use Web Mail, but we need access to old emails as well.
If we can boot from the cloned system OK, I suppose we could use Mail as usual and just copy the entire Mail folder back to the old system when it comes back. The only thing we're not sure of is that the cloned system is from an Intel mac, and we just have older G5s to boot it.
• Any potential dangers to this?
If this doesn't work, we would need a way to get a separate Mail system working on one of the alternate computers. The problem here is that the G5 we would most likely use is still using 10.4.11, not Leopard.
• Is there a way to 'extract' some of the messages from the backed-up Mail to view in this separate system?
• If we do use a separate system, would there be any way to 'merge' the new mail we get in the next week or so back into the old system?
Thanks! Any other suggestions are welcome. Keeping mail in-synch when having to transfer computers is one of the more pressing, but daunting tasks, especially when it's temporary.
Message was edited by: YoKenny

You could have a New User Account on a Mac running Leopard, and do this quite easily, by transplanting the com.apple.mail.plist file from the User Directory/Library/Preferences folder and the Mail folder from User Directory/Library. The same could be done with the AddressBook folder in the Applications Support folder in the User Directory/Library. Later you would reverse the transplant procedure.
The problem with doing this into a environment using Tiger (10.4.11) is that the two versions of Mail do not use the same file to prevent duplicate downloading of messages from the POP servers. This would complicate things initially, but would not be a problem later shifting back. Also, I am not sure if anything other than the basic account and mailbox structure would survive in good shape going backward, and then later forward again in versions. If you were using only IMAP accounts, it would not present any problem, I don't think, but I have presumed POP?
You should not be able to boot from the cloned system on any computer other than the original MacBook Pro, btw, so that is not an option.

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