How to backup the mails in mountain lion

Hello i am looking for help, can anyone tell me step by step how to backup and restore mail folders in mail in macbook

You can use Time Machine as your back up solution and/or any 3rd party back up software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Or, if your Mail folder is not very large you could copy it to a USB thumb drive.
Your user Mail folder resides in the user Library (~/Library). There are a couple of ways to get to it since it is hidden.
1. Open Terminal and type chflags nohidden ~/Library <--- This will unhide the user Library folder and you will see it under your user name within Finder.
2. Open Finder then press/hold the Option key while you click on Go / Go to Folder. You will see the Library folder under the Home folder in your list of selections. Select Library. Once Library shows up in the Finder window, you can click and drag its icon, in the Title portion of the Finder window, and place it in the Finder Sidebar.
Once the user Library is available to view, you can copy your Mail folder to a USB thumb drive for back up and restore from the USB thumb drive. If you decide to use Time Machine or a 3rd party software then you can do one of the following to restore the Mail folder depending on the software used.
1. If Time Machine was used, make sure you have a Finder window opened to your user Library. Enter Time Machine and navigate to the date you want to restore from. You can choose to restore it to its original location or a different location.
2. If you use a 3rd party software then you would can open Finder / Go / Go to Folder and type in the path to your user Library on the backup. For example /Volumes/MBP CCC Backup/Users/<username>/Library. Copy the Mail folder to where ever you want.
Hope this helps.

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~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
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Services ▹ Reveal
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When mountain lion first uploaded it opened mail twice, one was the older style, and the other window was in the latest style.
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danpuzz wrote:
Thanks. Is it odd that I haven't recieved any sort of confirmation email to indicate that the request is pending, or is one not sent out?
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http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apples-os-x-mountain-lion-up-to-date-program -experiencing-early-hiccups/

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arnidee wrote:
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Will be much appreciated !!
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http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Time Machine can work as good as a clone, and in fact I once had to rely on it because my hard drive died. Thankfully it did recover everything. But I had my clone just in case it didn't work. Now I feel more comfortable since clones allow you to boot themselves, and thus prove all the important system information got saved, and not just the user data.
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The iOS view vs classic view in Mail is not the problem; I've already configured for classic view.
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