Importing mail from Thunderbird incomplete

I'm having some issues importing mail from Thunderbird (Windows). I have exported them as mbox format and copied it across on my Mac. I then import it using mail and select Thunderbird and pointed it to the correct folder.
It starts importing fine, but the issue is that it only imports 1 email only. I have 2000+ emails in the mbox.
I tried Thunderbird for Mac, and imported it across. It works fine importing from Thunderbird Windows -> Thunderbird Mac.
Then I tried importing again to Mail by pointing to my ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles folder and once again the import completes with no errors, but only one single email was imported.
Any ideas?

You’d get better results if you use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion instead.

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Well, here's the solution and this is what I did - go to Eudora's web site, and find and download: "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner 4.8" - it is a small application that I saved on my desktop. Then I followed the following steps:
1. I compacted my Thunderbird mailboxes first (choose "File → Compact Folders" from the menu in Thunderbird) to remove already deleted messages from the mails files and to speed up the migration process.
2. Then I located my Thunderbird profile folder and dragged it onto the 'Eudora Mailbox Cleaner' icon in the Finder. Then I chose the drop-down menu item to select Thunderbird instead of Eudora (just followed the appropriate settings in the dialog, with Thunderbird as the source application which migrated my messages to Apple Mail).
3. All my mail data from Thunderbird showed up in Mail - Import folder - when I restarted Mail.
4. One more step - I then had to select each imported folder and go to the Menu item: "Mailbox/Rebuild" and the folder that looked empty was filled with all the imported messages.
5. It was slick, and I made the 3 days I had fretted over the process, trying everything I could think of, seem like a distant bad dream.
Paul Huddle
P.S. When you download the Eudora app, it comes with a read-me that explains way more then is needed to complete the process.

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Is there a third party program that can help this along?
You might want to take a look at Eudora Mailbox Cleaner - it can import mail from Thunderbird to Mail so I guess Netscape Mail should be fine as well:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
Andreas

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Try copying the whold SD card to your desktop by holding down the Option key and dragging the SD card icon about 2 inches away from the where the card sits on the desktop. This should trigger Mac OS to make a copy of the whole SD card onto your Macintosh's desktop. Once it finishes from there, eject the SD card. Reboot your Mac then open iMovie without launching any other programs whatsoever. Go to the File Menu Import Movies from File... And point it at the copy of the SD card and see if it crashes again.

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Two ways to go...
1st...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Tiger Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
2nd...
Get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, Reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
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The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
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hello !
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Hi,
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Currently i'm using Thunderbird 24.4.0 and i just want to delete my useless mails from Thunderbird but not from the server without using pop-3 settings.
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Imap mail accounts keep the emails on the server and you see a remote view of those emails and folders.
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Please read section on 'All Mail' at this link.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_Gmail_with_Thunderbird_and_Mozilla_Suite
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see info here:
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/imap-synchronization#w_configuring-synchronization-and-disk-space-usage

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hey,
i am trying to convert all my operations to native programs, i am currently using ThunderBird as my mail client but want to move over to mail. when i go to import my inbox i manage to find it and when it starts to import it crashes! i am assuming it is because i have over 4,500 e-mails that are split over to folders about even. i want to know how can i solve this, basically all i want is to open up mail and have everything there not in a separate folder that has all my imported e-mails, i want it as if i have been using mail from the start.
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You’d get better results using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion.
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner requires rebuilding the imported mailboxes in Mail afterwards. Instead of rebuilding them one by one, you can re-create the entire index as follows:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
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