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I just installed Leopard on my eMac and it installed just fine. However, I seemed to have installed it clean instead of an upgrade.
I see the files for my mail in my "username"|Library|Mail|Mailboxes folder, but cannot import them. When I go to Mail and choose "File" then "Import Mailboxes", I get a option of where to import mail from. I choose "Mail for Max OS X" and then show it where I saw my mailboxes, but they do not show up for me to select them.
How do I do this?
HELP!!

Well, I have finally figured out the problem. Some moron (that would be me) installed Leopard on the external hard drive instead of the main hard drive. Time Machine will NOT use the same drive that it boots from to back up the computer.
Solution: Unplug the external drive, let it boot to the old operating system, reinstall Leopard, plug in the external hard drive and then configure Time Machine to use the external drive.
Thank you for all your help and suggestions.

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