How To Move Mail From Old Drive To New Drive

Hi All
My situation was I have an iMac 27inch 2010 running Mavericks and added another HD with a SSD drive and needed to get my Mail messages into the new Mail app on the SSD drive.
I downloaded a freeware called "Invisiblix" which finds hidden files then went to old hard drive - Users - Username - Library (was hidden for me) - Mail - and copy Mail folder to new Mail folder on the new drive (SSD) make sure Mail is closed. Follow same procedure to get to new mail on new drive.
Worked perfectly for me.

The way I usually do it is to create an Address Book backup database file (sorry; on a PC at the moment, not sure of the exact wording) on the "old" computer, then copy that file to the new one. Then, from on the new computer, open Address Book and choose to import or restore from a database file (again, sorry for not having the exact wording). When it prompts you to replace your existing data (of which there should be very little if anything), choose yes.
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