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I thought I was doing this the right way, but obviously I'm missing something ...
I wanted to copy all my emails in my gmail account from my iMac to my new MacBook. In Finder I went to Users/Tricia/Library/Mail/POP-myemailaddress and copied the entire folder. I also copied the Mailboxes folder and the Mail Downloads folder. I then pasted these folders into the same location on my MacBook.
When I check in Finder all the folders, mailboxes and emails are there, however, when I open Mail my Gmail account is empty, as are all the mailboxes 'On My Mac'.
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I've re-done this action several times and it's simply not working. I have been able to successfully copy my entire Gmail account between Macs before using this method.
I'm very perplexed!
Tricia

Hi Chris, thanks for your prompt response. I did as you suggested, however, it resulted in my Inbox just having my MobileMe account in Mail - my Gmail account doesn't show up in the Inbox area at all.
Under 'On My Mac' all my Gmail mailboxes that I'd set up are there but, as before, they're all empty.
I've repaired disk permissions and can't think of what else to do.
I'm going to Italy tomorrow for 4 months and wanted to have all my emails from my Gmail account show up in Mail. Looks like that's not going to happen!
cheers
Tricia

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