Manually migrate Mail 8.2 rules - yosemite

I have an old IMac running yosemite with Mac Mail 8.2 and I would like to copy the rules to my new IMac. I have over 50 rules with many different filters and recreating would take very long and I am trying to keep the new machine clean by only migrating select files.

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 LibraryMail/V2/MailData/SyncedRules.plist.

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Just performed a clean install of Mavericks 10.9.2 onto my computer and I would now like to manually bring in my mail from my time machine backup. Can you tell me what files to copy over and in exactly what folder they should go? P.S. I don't want to use migration assistant because Mail is the only thing I care about carrying over. Thank you.

If the two machine's have two different username/password combos, you cant' do what you want. The only solution is to create a duplicate account on the MB, mimicking the one on the iMac and then copy the Mail folder into that user's Library folder. Then, use that as your primary user account, deleting the the useless other one.

Migrate mail from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5

I have an extremely simple requirement, to manually migrate my mail from Snow leopard (10.6.8) to Lion (10.7.5). Explaining my situation below-
I have an iMac(originally 10.6.8) and for multiple reasons, I chose to upgrade to Lion (10.7.5) rather than Mountain Lion. From snow leopard I have taken each and every type of back in the form of the folders and attached prefernce files, for example, as a backup of keychains, I have the keychains folder from the main library as well as the user library, similarly for address book, safari and mail. So in case of mail, I have copied, the mail folder from the main library, mail and mail downloads folder from the user library and the com.apple.mail.plist from the preferences folder in the user library. After taking the said backups I have formatted my machine and installed the operating system lion, 10.7.5
Listing details of mail accounts, I have five live(Microsoft, live, outlook, hotmail, whatever you call them) accounts and one solitary gmail account. All these accounts are on POP protocol(simply because I want/need a copy of mails, communications and downloaded attachments to be on the mail server for emergency situations(such as this))
Now the issues begin, speaking strictly in terms of mail. Listing steps taken and their results,
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Copied the following folders, mail folder from main library(I.e. under macintosh hd), mail and mail downloads folder from the user library, com.apple.plist from the preferences folder in the user library. Note. a) this is a fresh install of lion, the mail app hasn't been executed even once. b) I deleted the v2 folder already located inside the mail folder in the user library, because it was suggested in the comments section in the link above.
Result - After the said process, I started mail(for the first time) mail detected the old structure, said it needed to reindex. After the process I could see all my accounts, all my mail, smart folders, all the attachments... Blissful. "BUT!!" when I hit get new mail, the mess begins. Mail starts to "RE" download ALL the mails AGAIN, 8000 mails, 7.5 gb worth of attachments.
2) Action - after the above debacle, quit mail and studied its folder structures in the user library as well as the main library, compared this folder structure of my snow leopard mail backup and manually tried COPYING ".mbox" in their respective new folder locations. Eg. Copied, "inbox.mbox" of account "x" from my snow leopard backup to the newly created folder structure in lion (I.e. inside the v2 folder, inside the account x folder.) also copied each individual preference file like MailAccounts.plist and all and copied them to their new location.
Result - the above process was an even bigger disaster. It corrupted my basic mail app. I had to perform an erase and reinstall the os.
3) action - after the fresh reinstall, and doing further research, I set up accounts INDIVIDUALLY (I.e. via Add account) this time "importing" each individual mailboxes via import command, once imported, I placed the emails contained within, to their respective inboxes.
Result - the above process too shows all my mails again, but when I hit get new mail, mail starts to redownload the **** mails from the server AGAIN!!
I have tried the above processes umpteen number of times in different variations, such as only one account at a time or importing only one inbox at a time. Still no luck. This a very frustrating issue. I have been manually migrating mail for the past 5 years. This new v2 folder is ******* everything up.
Note. Checked "duplicate mails" in lion help, which told me that duplicate mails get downloaded via the POP protocol if coming from an older version of OSx.
So is there a way I can make my mail lion compatible? Some software, some plugin? The entire world seemed to migrate mail, why not me?
A solution would be divine, as I am a designer with live projects and attachments stuck in the mail... Temporarily using mail from my iPad as my main machine which also has started acting like a ***** after ios 7, which is another headache all together.
Need help please, anyone on the forum with knowledge on how to solve this issue would have a special place in my heart besides a million thanks in advance.
Thanks a million in advance,
Abu Suda.

Try reindexing the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Reindex messages.
If that doesn't work try deleting MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3.
Quit the application.
You need to look in your user Library. Either hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command and select your user Library in your home folder or use the Finder “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mail Data/MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3. Move the file to your desktop.
Open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the file from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return thefile to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you prefer to make your User library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
Show User Library
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.5. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

Apple Mail Manual Migration 10.6 to 10.8

I am currently making the switch from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. I have always manually migrated all of my data because I feel its better to give the hard drive a chance for some spring cleaning and get rid of the junk that accumulates over the years. Apple mail seems to organize the mail files a little differently than in 10.6. I see a V2 folder in it and I made a test account to compare with how my Mail folder looks, and they do look a bit different.
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I read in another forum that if you simply paste everything from the old mail folder to the new one (along with relevant preference and keychain files) that mail in 10.8 will do what it needs to do to organize them. Is this true? If I simply drag and drop everything from my old mail folder, will mountain lion mail recognize those files and work without a problem?

I'm in the process of upgrading from an early 2008 iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to a Mid 2011 iMac with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and had a similar query but things seem to have gone smothly for me with a manual mail transfer / migration.
I have 3 email accounts but quite a lot of messages along with folders, rules, etc to filter them all. At the very least, I just wanted to get all the messages across in tact and preferably in the correct folders. I was willing to set up the rest manually.
I have actually managed to transfer all messages, folders (with structure), rules and mail accounts with all server details. All I had to do was provide the 3 passwords. The ML installation was clean from scratch (bought it 2nd hand) and I did not open Mail at all. I don't know for sure whether this is very important but I worked on the basis that it might be.
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On the ML iMac, I navigate to Library (with a Finder windo open, click on the Go menu, hold left option key and it will appear in the menu). For safety's sake, I made a copy of the existing Mail folder which contained a V2 folder and some stuff under that. I then deleted it from the Library and copied the two folders on my USB stick. There were no mail plist files in the preferences folder (presumably because I hadn't run Mail at all yet), so I dropped in the two plist files from my SL machine.
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This is exactly what I was hoping to achieve and I didn't think it would work but for those moving from SL to ML, it can be done. If it hadn't worked, my next move was to upgrade the SL iMac to ML and then try to migrate that way.
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Any tips on How to migrate mails from Google Apps to MSOL? What is required? When I am trying to migrate using IMAP but getting fpollowing error
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Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:00:11
[email protected]
Failed
Error:
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Elapsed Time: 00:00:11
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[email protected],imap.gmail.com,[email protected],P@ssword1,[email protected]
[email protected],imap.gmail.com,[email protected],P@ssword2,[email protected]
[email protected],imap.gmail.com,[email protected],P@ssword3,[email protected]
Then I created a custom folder map XML file [i.e. GoogleApps(Gmail)_FolderMap.xml] to map the Google Apps (Gmail) labels to the appropriate Exchange (Outlook) mailbox folders and create those that didn't exist (i.e. Important, Starred, Follow up,
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FolderMappings xmlns="http://tempuri.org/FolderMap.xsd">



<Folder path = "INBOX">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "New Mail">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Root]">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Inbox"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Calendar">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Calendar"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Tasks">
<Property Name = "Migration items/Tasks"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Sent Items">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Sent Mail">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Sent">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Deleted Items">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Deleted Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Trash">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Deleted Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Drafts">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Drafts"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Draft">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Drafts"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Junk E-mail">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Junk E-mail"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Spam">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Junk E-mail"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Contacts">
<Property Name = "Migration Items/Contacts"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Outbox">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Outbox"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Journal">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Journal"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Notes">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Notes"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Public Folders">
<Property ExcludeFolder = "true"/>
</Folder>

<Folder path = "[Gmail]/All Mail">
<Property ExcludeFolder = "true"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "All Mail">
<Property ExcludeFolder = "true"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Drafts">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Drafts"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Important">
<Property Name = "Inbox/Important"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Sent Mail">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Sent Items"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Spam">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Junk E-mail"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Starred">
<Property Name = "Inbox/Starred"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "[Gmail]/Trash">
<Property SpecialFolder = "Deleted Items"/>
</Folder>

<Folder path = "Follow up">
<Property Name = "Inbox/Follow up"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Misc">
<Property Name = "Inbox/Misc"/>
</Folder>
<Folder path = "Priority">
<Property Name = "Inbox/Priority"/>
</Folder>
</FolderMappings>
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Just to note, the users had to manually export their contacts to a CSV file and calendars to iCal (ICS) files in order to import those items into Outlook.
I hope this will benefit others since Microsoft doesn't seem to have a custom, specifically defined migration strategy for this scenario. With Google Apps being in direct competition with BPOS/Office365, I assumed that Microsoft would have a simple
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--Jon Payne

Manual Migration

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I guess the basic problem is that I don't want ALL files from my old computer moved to the new one, I'm not sure how far I can "fine-tune" the Migration Assistant in that respect and I'm not sure how to go about that hardware-wise, either...
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<font "size=+1">Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
From the Home folder copy the contents of Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites.
In your /Home/Library/ folder:
/Home/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (* This is a very important file which contains all email account settings and general mail preferences.)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ copy any preferences needed for third-party applications
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
Credit goes to another forum user for this information.

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I want to manually migrate my user data from a cloned back-up to my iMac after a clean install of Mountain Lion. I do not want to use Migration Assistant because of the probabily of re-importing some of the problems I'm trying to fix. (This is at the tail end of a long trouble shooting process trying to fix a very very slow computer aftere a ML upgrade from Lion. Clean install of ML is a last resort)
There used to be an excellent list by Kappy (I think) on this sort of migration under earlier systems and from PPC to Intel. But that link seems to have been taken down.
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You'll get more info posting here
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1219
as this a forum for Servers.
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I am aware that on the current OS the data is contained in: useraccount/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr, but am unable to find any similar file in the old account Library (Mail 2.1.3).
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1. How do you migrate Mail Preferences, specifically Signatures and Rules, from OS 10.8.5 (Mac Pro) to OS 10.9.5 (MacBook Pro)?
2. Why won’t Signatures and Rules upload/sync with iCloud Mail?
Migration Assistant doesn’t work and I’ve already spent a week total trying to resolve this issue once and for all.

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I am finally going to upgrade my Mac Pro to Mavericks. It is currently running SL 10.6.8. I will definitely perform a clean install and then reinstall all applications manually. But I can't decide if I should use the Migration Assistant to move my data over or if I should do it all manually.
Reason for a completely manual migration:
A clean start. My system currently contains over a decade's worth of clutter. My user library folder is several hundred GB in size and I have no idea what most of the stuff in there is. It's a mess and it doesn't feel right.
Reason for using migration assistant:
It basically guarantees that nothing important is forgotten and - more importantly - it automatically takes care of stuff that can be very troublesome to transfer manually, like Mail data for example. The Migration Assistant seems safer in this regard than a completely manual migration.
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I'm still not getting your question. What do you want to move? Locally stored messages? (You dont have IMAP?) COnfiguration settings? (saet them manually, it would take less time than this discussion).
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