Import mail from one mac to another

Hi,
I have 3 months worth of mail on my laptop, and I want to transfer it to my desktop, what is the easiest way to do this? The laptop is a PowerPC Macbook Pro running 10.5, the Mac Pro is running Lion. It's about 2000 messages.
Thanks for help

There is a bug when doing “export mailbox” and import mailbox functionality.
Workaround:
> Open Finder and under the “Go” menu, hold down the option key. The “Library” sub-menu will show up.
> Copy the entire “Library > Mail” folder to a USB disk (it will not work if copying to a shared drive for some reason)
> Take the USB disk to the new computer and do an “Import Mailbox” and select the copied Data file. There will be LOTS of folders that come up for import, you can browse through and deselect what you don’t need (e.g. trash or junk mail), OR just import everything and then clean up from your mailbox.
> The imported folders will show up in mail under the “On My Mac” area.

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When exporting and then importing Apple Mail from one mac to another I get "Some messages could not be imported. Partially imported mailbox will be labeled IMPORT" . That mailbox does not appear.

When exporting and then importing Apple Mail from one mac to another I get "Some messages could not be imported. Partially imported mailbox will be labeled IMPORT" . That mailbox does not appear.
Any help would be welcome

This is a bug in Mail. The mailbox archiving function does not include attachments, which gives the error with the import. To workaround this you can create a mailbox in Mail and copy to it all emails you want to export. Then go in Finder to [user]/Library/Mail/Mailboxes en select the created mailbox. Copy this to the public directory of your other mac. Then start Mail on that other mac and import the mailbox from the public directory. Should work now.

Transferring Mail from one Mac to another via Screen Sharing

Hi,
I live in California. My Mother lives in Montreal. She has to computers. A Mac Mini and new MacBook.
What I want to do is transfer her Mail from the Mac Mini to the MacBook via Screen Sharing or Remote Management. In other words, I want to do this from my computer.
How does one go about this? What somewhere is needed to make it all work?
Thanks in advance.

you can't screen share between 3 computers. but you can between two. the easiest way is via ichat. users need to log into ichat on both computers and then you can send a request to share screen via ichat. it's also possible to do it without ichat but that might be more difficult that your mother can manage if she is not too computer savvy which I suspect is the case here. first she has to enable screen sharing in her system preferences->sharing. that's easy. but if she has a router (does she) then she need to port forward port public port 5900 on the router to the port 5900 on her computer so that you can get through the router when trying to screen share from outside. particular instructions on port forwarding depend on the router model. once the port is forwarded you can vnc to here computer from where you are by going to go menu-.connect to server in finder. then in the popup enter
vnc://ip.address
where the ip.address is the ip address of her router. she can find it out by going to this website for example
http://www.whatismyip.com/
but all in all, it's much easier with ichat as no port forwarding is required.

IPhoto 7.0 -importing photos from one Mac to another

My wife and I recently went on vacation and took many photos that we down-
loaded to her MacBook. Now that we are home, I want to download a portion of these photos to my iMac. Is it possible to import these vacation photos from her MacBook directly to my iMac, or do I need to 'Burn' several disks on the MacBook first then download these to the iMac? Harv66

Harv66
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
are those pics in iPhoto on her machine? If so, network the two machines together and use iPhoto Library Manager to move them from one library to another.
Regards
TD

Blurry photos once e-mailed from one mac to another

I am an iphoto novice and need some help to understand why my pictures are blurry. I have two imac computers in different places. I e-mailed myself 20 photos from one computer (where they look and print perfectly) making them all into smaller files for sending. I have now tries opening the pictures on my other computer Mac OSX 10.5.8 and all the photos are blurry, is there anyway of restoring them back to their original or am I going to have to print them off the original computer. The orignal computer is slightly older although I may have upgraded to iphoto 9 whereas the one I can't open the photos on is iphoto 8. If I need to upgrade how do I go about doing this.
Please help! and thanks

I am an iphoto novice and need some help to understand why my pictures are blurry. I have two imac computers in different places. I e-mailed myself 20 photos from one computer (where they look and print perfectly) making them all into smaller files for sending. I have now tries opening the pictures on my other computer Mac OSX 10.5.8 and all the photos are blurry, is there anyway of restoring them back to their original or am I going to have to print them off the original computer. The orignal computer is slightly older although I may have upgraded to iphoto 9 whereas the one I can't open the photos on is iphoto 8. If I need to upgrade how do I go about doing this.
You need to tell us more for a definitive answer- like exactly how you did the e-mailing and describe blurry and how you are seeing that (mail, preview, iPhoto, etc.)
making them all into smaller files for sending.
this is most likely the problem - smaller photos have less resolution and quality - for best results you would send full size photos are maximum quality - when you choose to reduce the quality you will get "reduces quality"
is there anyway of restoring them back to their original
There is no way to "restore" a photo that you intentionally made low quality back to high quality - you can transfer again in full quality using e-mail, a network connection or a CD or DVD
To upgrade to iPhoto '09 purchase the iLife '09 disk from the Apple store
LN

Problems importing mail from one user to another on same computer

Hi,
I work from home so I created a new account on my computer so I could have a personal user and a business user. That way maybe I won't always end up working when I'm trying to relax. So I want to bring all my old work emails over the the new work account. But when I copy the mail files to the new user account and then try to import, the folders all have red circles with minus signs. I gather that this has something to do with permissions, but when I change the owner to the new user, they still have the red circles. I also tried just moving the whole mail folder over to the new user, but it's "read only".
Both users are administrators. I'm running OS 10.4.4.
Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hi Andrew.
What you tried to transfer the Mail folder from one user to the other should have worked, except I believe you didn't properly change ownership of the files and folders involved.
7. open new user Mail
8. Mail asks me to set up an email account
This probably happened because you didn't change ownership of the com.apple.mail.plist file. If Mail doesn't have access permission to write to that file, it just deletes the file and creates a new one (Mail can delete the file because doing that requires write permissions for the directory the file is in, which it has). As a result of re-creating the preferences file, Mail asks you to set up your accounts from scratch all over again.
14. change the ownership of the mail folder to the
new user, but I still can't look inside the folder
and it has the red circle with the minus sign.
It looks like you tried changing ownership of the enclosing Mail folder only. Ownership of all the items within it must be changed as well. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this properly in the Finder, as the Apply to enclosed items button in the Get Info window also overwrites access permissions, not just the changes you make to ownership. Usually, this is wrong, as a different set of permissions may be appropriate for each item. In the particular case of the Mail folder, however, you can come close to doing the right thing as follows:
1. In the Finder, go to HOME/Library/. Locate the Mail folder, select it and choose File > Get Info (⌘I). Under Ownership & Permissions, expand Details by clicking on it.
2. Change the settings as follows (you may need to click on the lock icon to authenticate first). Owner: username, with "Read & "Write" access permissions; Group: username, with "Read only" access permissions; Others: "No Access".
3. Click on the Apply to enclosed items button at the bottom of the Get Info window.
4. Change Group access back to "No Access", which probably was (or should be) the initial setting when you opened the Info window.
5. Close the Get Info window.
The right way to (recursively) change ownership of the Mail folder without altering access permissions would be issuing the following command in Terminal:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/Library/Mail
And while you're at it, you may as well use Terminal to change ownership of the preferences file:
sudo chown username:username ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

How do I migrate my old emails in Mail from one Mac to another?

I've upgraded from a G5 (OS Tiger) to a Mac Pro (OS Leopard). I've set up Mail on the Pro, but I want to migrate/move all my email folders, Inbox messages, Sent mail, etc. from my G5 to the Pro. I thought manually grabbing all folders and files from Library/Mail/... and placing them in the same place on the Pro would have done the trick, but no emails show when I have Mail up.
I've searched through Apple Support, but the closest match is migrating from a PC to a Mac. Not quite what I'm looking for.
This seems like a pretty standard question. Hopefully someone out there can walk me through it.
Thanks!
Steve (aka Twitchy)

Hi Steve,
The best most complete method would be to use Migration Assistant to Migrate everything, but if they're networked with File Sharing enabled on the older one, then connect using the G5's username & Password, then on the new Mac use Mail>File>Import Mailboxes>Apple Mail...

Taking 'local' mail from one mac to another

Hi there
I saved loads of email 'On My Mac' in mail, on my old iMac. I have now upgraded, set up everything and installed Snow Leopard... I now need to know how to import all my old mail so that it is on my new mac in the 'On My Mac' folder, and appears like it did.....
Any help most welcome
Thnx

do you want just "on my mac" mail or your whole Mail setup. it's easiest to do the latter. quit Mail and copy the entire fole /users/username/library/mail AND the file /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from the old computer to the corresponding locations on the new one. start Mail and it will look as it did on the old computer.

Copying Mails from one Mac to another Mac

Hi There,
I want to copy all my emails (pop account) from the harddisk of mini Mac OS X 10.4.6 to my PowerBook OS X 10.4.6. How to do? I tried it through .Mac but that doesn't work (when synchronising the source with .Mac the emails don't appear in Mail of .Mac.
Can anybody help?
Thanks

Tom & Stuart
yes, Mail-File-Import Mailboxes will do it for the email messages & folder structure ( but not the account settings, perhaps?)
Copy the Mail folder from A to (say) the desktop on B
then on B, use Mail-file-import mailboxes-mail for mac OSX & point the importer to the copy of A's Mail folder.
The messages/folders will indeed appear inside an 'imported' folder, but can be moved freely from that.
Tom -
you may find, as I suggested, that you can't use the account on B that was on A.
This can also be transferred, by locating the Folder named POP-username@ mail server inside the copy of A's Mail folder & copying it into B's Mail folder. Then in B's Mail-prefs-accounts add a new account & enter the details exactly as you did when you set up the account on A.
If the messages aren't visible in the 'new' account
Quit Mail & start again, & all should be well.
Make a backup of B's Mail folder and /home/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist before you do this, & Quit Mail before moving any files/folders using Finder.
I hope that'll do what you want..... & with the backups made first - you can recover easily in case of mistakes.

Moving local mail from one Mac to another

I just got a new Mac and I'd like to move all of my local mailboxes to the new machine. I do NOT plan to use the setup process that attempts to get all of your files and settings, so I need to do this "by hand." I made the local mailbox named "local_archive", so is it as simple as copying the ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/local_archive folder from the old machine to the new? Do I need to also get (or avoid getting) the ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/local_archive.mbox folder too?
Thanks,
Sean

Hello Sean.
Are you running Tiger on this to be transferred from Mac?
Regardless, it is best to use the Import Mailboxes feature for any mailboxes to be transferred.

How can I transfer entire contents of Mail mailbox from one Mac to another?

I've long wondered how to do this:
I have two Macs - an iMac and a MacBook Pro.
I have categorized several hundred emails on the MacBook into a separate "mailbox" by itself. Let's just call it "Project XYZ emails" for the sake of discussion.
I need to transfer ALL of those emails +en masse+, hopefully still categorized together into a separate "Project XYZ emails" mailbox file, from the MacBook to the iMac. How is this done?
In the old days, when I used to use Eudora, this was quite simple -- one could physically locate the separate desired "mailbox" file in the Finder and just copy it from one hard drive to the other, and then place the mailbox into the appropriate place of Eudora's file structure on the second computer. Relaunch Eudora and voila, the new mailbox is there for viewing, etc.
But in Mail, I can't find any tangible "file" on my hard drive that represents a "mailbox" in the Mail program. And that includes control-clicking the application file itself and choosing "Show Package Contents." When I do that, I can see, after burrowing into the folders, a single large file called "Mail" which I think contains ALL mailboxes lumped together. But I can't see a way to separate them for individual manipulation.
Any suggestions or ideas on how to copy entire mailboxes in Mail from one Mac to another?

Thanks! Seems to have worked.
Once I imported tham, I had to fiddle around renaming mailboxes and "moving" the emails to the desired locations, but that only took a minute. So overall, seems like that's the solution! I only wish that the steps to do this were made clearer by Apple in the Mail "help" menu -- where I couldn't find any mention of how to do this.
A happy ending, in any event.
In case anyone reads this in the future, let me add in the missing steps, to make it perfectly clear:
In Mail, choose 'archive mailbox' from the mailbox menu.
+Copy the newly created archived mailbox file, which will probably be a file with the suffix ".mbox," from the original machine to the second machine.+
On the second machine: In Mail choose 'import mailbox' from the file menu.
+The emails will now appear in a new mailbox in Mail listed under the name "imported" or "import." If desired, either rename the mailbox, or create a new mailbox with the correct name, and "move" all the emails into it.+
Done!

Move all Mail emails from one Mac to another

Move all Mail emails from one Mac to another (both Mountain Lion)
Is it correct to copy (/replace) the following to the target Mac?
~/Library/Mail/
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
and everything beginning with
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist...
Many thanks!

coxorange wrote:
Csound1 wrote:
The Imap account does not need to be moved, sign in on the new machine, your mail will be there.
Does this mean even though these mails had been downloaded to the first Mac, they are still stored online too
Yes, Imap systems store all mail on the server, all connected clients are synchronized to the server (the mail itself stays on the server)
... regarding the POP accounts. Do you simply want the contents are or you planning on continued use of these accounts on the new machine?
Continued use.
Export each mailbox from the old machine to the desktop, to do so select a mailbox, rght click and choose Export, repeat for all others. Move the mailboxes to the new machine'sdesktop.
I suggest setting up the new accounts before importing the mail from the old machine.
In mail choose File>Import Mailboxes, choose the ones on the desktop (one at a time) a new mailbox will appear in Mail called Imported, you can move mail from there back to the correct mailbox in the POP accounts.

How can I migrate my junk-mail settings from one Mac to another?

I would like to move my junk mail settings from one Mac to another. I found this article (https://kb.siteground.com/how_to_synchronize_the_junk_email_settings_in_mac_mail /), but can't locate the file indicated in the article, so I suspect that the article is out of date (though it's not dated).
Both machines - MacOS 10.9.5; Mail 7.3.
Any insights much appreciated!
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Doug

Make your user library visible and see if you can find it.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library.

Move mail folders from one mac to another

How to move my mail folders from one mac to another.
The foldera re on my mac. See below the attached image.

Some possible options in no particular order:
(1) Copy the folders to a SUB Thumb Drive.
(2) Use Dropbox
(3) If your Macs are compatible with AirDrop see list:
MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)
iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)
Activate AirDrop on both Macs to Move/Copy your Mail Folders.

Project from one mac to another

Hi
How dose one take a project from one mac to another.
On one of mac the fotage has been cut as a ruff cut and I would like to take that edited to another mac the fotage is on both mac. Is it as simple as a edl list and reconnect the fotage on the other mac.
tips please as this is the first time I'm going to do this
thanks for helping out going from 5.1 to 6
trevor

Just copy the project file to the other Mac, and open it. Reconnect if FCP asks you to.
If you just want that single sequence, right-click the sequence in the Browser window, and choose File -> Export -> XML (version 3). Copy and import that in FCP on the other Mac. (File -> Import -> XML)

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