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My iMac Power supply failed a few days ago and I decided to migrate my important data to my MacBook Pro until I get my iMac back. Both machines have been running Mavericks for a while and are up to date with the latest everything.
I used Migration Assistant and selected the iMac backup. Then selected to migrate my apps and data and documents.
Everything copied across beautifully EXCEPT all my mails in the mailboxes. All the mailboxes (on my mac) copied across, but all are empty.
Now the crazy part.
When I select "Browse other backup disks" and select the iMac backup (while in Mail), it goes into TM and shows the latest backup being July 8th and a number of previous dates, but they are all empty. Yet when I mount the Sparsebundle, I can see the data.
Also one time I tried entering TM from mail, it actually showed me all the data under the "Now" link on the right and I could see all the files that are supposedly missing. Yet the "Recover" button is disabled. Of course that is expected as I would not want to recover what I have. But the fact that I can see them in TM but not in normal Mail is crazy.
Even more sinister is that the files all exist in the ~/library\mail folder.
I then tried importing them by pointing to them. It says it has imported them within about a second and gives me a new location to view them, but that folder does not exist - or at least show - in mail.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Peter

Quit mail.
Goto ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Delete the follow
Launch mail, it will re-import those files.

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