Mavericks mail export doesn't work

I've been trying to export a gmail "mailbox" from Mail 7 so I can use it elsewhere. Mail (and Google) show it having hundreds of email, but when I export it produces a mbox file of about 400kb. Obviously not all the messages. It isn't an alias or symlink. There's a plist and table of contents, but no messages. I don't have the old Mail, but IIRC it produced a mbox with all the messages. This behavior is occurring on both a MPB and iMac, running the just recently "upgraded" Mail. What's up??

I ran into the same issue and found a work-around that does the trick:
For my example, I wanted to export a folder on my Gmail account labeled as '2009'.
1.  Go to Mailbox > New Mailbox > Select "On my Mac” for location, create a folder called “Export”
2.  Create a sub-folder that matches email you want to export (I tried just dragging a folder over from Gmail: It created the folder, but no messages were copied)
3.  Select all messages you want to export, copy them into your new folder (On my Mac > Export > Folder name (2009) )
4.  Export new mailbox via Mailbox > Export Mailbox
Rinse and repeat.
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