Migration assistant - Only one Mail inbox came accross complete

I've just used migration assistant to transfer everything accross from a G4 iMac to a G5 intel mac. In Mail I have to email accounts, one with .Mac the other with my internet provider. However after the transfer there is only one email message, the most recent, in the Inbox of my internet provider address. All messages in the inbox for the .Mac account seem to have come across though.
Can anyone provide advice on how to get all the inbox contents across?

So, I'm thinking of wiping my new machine, doing a SuperDuper clone of my old Powerbook over FireWire, and then doing Upgrade&Install with the new MBP install discs. Will this work?
Yes, but you will need to boot from the install DVD right after the clone and do the Archive and Install. I'm not sure if that will solve the problem though. If those messages are still on a server, it may download them again.
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HT4796 can i use migration assistant from one windows laptop to another

I need to set up iTunes on a new laptop but I don't know how to do it. Migration assistant seems to be only from a windows p.c. to a mac laptop. I want to transfer all my music from old (vista) to new (7). Can I do this?

No. Migration Assistant only works when using OS X on one of the computers. You would have to ask Microsoft Support.
Hope this helps

Apple Mail downloads only one mail at a time...

Hi Everybody,
My PowerBook runs on Tiger 10.4.11. And I have Apple Mail version 2.1.3, which I have configured to my gmail account.
Just a few days back I noticed something very peculiar about the download habit of Apple Mail which now downloads only one mail (this has started a few weeks back). Irrespective of how many mails there are on my gmail, when I press 'get mail' button, it connects to my gmail account and shows & downloads only one mail(the first in the row). Now, when I figured out the problem I have to press the 'get mail' button again and again till there are no more mails to download. It actually downloads all mails based on the receipt time, but only one at a time.
Does anyone here have any idea what this could be. I really look forward to sorting this out.
Thanks in advance
Malaya

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the 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 from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.
May even need to do an Archive and Install if you have room on the HD...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
I only use Software Update to see what is needed, then get them for real via...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
That way I can wait a week or so, check the forums for potential problems, and get Permissions & such in order before installing.

My wife and I each have an Ipad and only one mail account. Both of us receive the same e-mails but when one of us deleates an e-mail it also deleates on the other Ipad. How can I stop this? I might delete an e-mail she wants to read. Thanks

My wife and I each have an Ipad and use only one mail account. Both Ipads therefore get the same mail and when either one of us deleates an email it also deleates on the other Ipad and this can be a problem if one of us doesn't want that e-mail deleted. Obviously our Ipads are synced and I don't know how to correct this. Any advice ?

If you both have the same email account, there's no setting on iPad you can use. When a message is deleted, it's deleted from the mail account server, which will happen on both devices.

Today, I had to choose only one mail. Really a shame for Blackberry.

I'm a french Blackberry user for many years. Today, on my Torch, I was asking by Blackberry to enter my password.No more mail on my phone... Blocked.
I have a smartphone, a kind of hardware, and I did not know that Blackberry can block my mails !!!
Strange, is'nt it ?
Is it legal ?
OK. I did it.
What a surprise after that !! I had to choose only one mail address... so I have to choose between my mails and my pro planning via Yahoo.... (I bought a small soft fo that)
I bought a Blackberry for security, well built phones and so...
Now, I was asked to choose for a restricted service, decided by Blackberry.
I have no choice, or my mails are blocked...
It's really a shame and not fair.
Of course, no way to reach them directly.
If Blackberry don't move, I will choose others....
To be free today is really a challenge...
Solved!
Go to Solution.

If you are in the same situation, contact me.
Pour les français, je n'ai pas réussi à avoir une identité qui fonctionne sur le site de Blackberry France...
Pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas bien mon anglais moyen :
Je n'ai plus de mails sur mon torch depuis 16h30 aujourd'hui.
Blackberry m'a demandé d'entrer mon mot de passe....
Ensuite, je n'ai plus eu le choix, sois-disant avec mon abonnement, je n'avais droit qu'à une adresse mail !!!
Cela fonctionnait depuis des mois et je n'avais pas d'abonnement....
Il fallait que je choisisse entre mes mails et mon planning professionnel géré par Yahoo car Blackberry n'a jamais été capable de gérer des passerelles avec Lightning, cf Thunderbird.
Est-ce pour imposer leur softs ? Est-ce pour faire payer plus ???
Dans tous les cas, ils m'empêchent de travailler normalement et le blocage des mails est totalement abusif.
Si vous êtes dans le même cas, n'hésitez pas à poster sur le forum.
Plus nombreux nous sommes, plus nous aurons de poids.
Bien à vous,

Migration Assistant only moved Apple Mail account & nothing else in Mail

Hello,
I recently got a New MacBook Pro, now running 10.8.1. My Old Black MacBook was Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I used the Migration Assistant to move everything over. So far Everything seems to have been moved over, except my mail settings, Malbox folders, Rules, and accounts. It did move my icloud mail account info, but that was it. I have 5 other Accounts with seperate POP/SMTP servers to move over. I have been able to manually Migrate all the Mailbox folders on my mac by importing them from my old mac's ~/user/Library/Mail folder, but my accounts and Extensive set of rules still have not been moved.
I first tried moving my MessageRules.plist file from my old ~/user/Library/Mail folder to my new folder of the same name, but that did not move my rules.
Any Suggestions as to how I can move my accounts and rules.
Thank you in Advance.
Jeff

I am having the same issue in one of my machines: just downloading one mail at a time from my Gmail account...
I would love to hear a solution to this...

Limiting notifications to only one mail account

i have one inbox, in it i have mobileme and gmail, but i only want to see dock notifications for the mobileme account, whats the best way?
thank you
Max

To be sure I get it.... I'm not thinking about profile where you have you own setup on the device. I'm only talking about the situation, where you are syncing with more than one mail account and you want to set up a password for only one account and not the other (or the rest of Apps and/or funtionallity on the deivce).

Just used migration assistant from one mac to another one. When I restart the new mac, the old user boots up instead of my new user. Have to log out then log in.

Just got a new Imac. I migrated from the old Imac. When I boot the new Imac, the old user screen boots up. I have to log out and then log into my new user on the new mac. Whats up?
Thanks.

Thanks for your help. But the PowerBook has a Migration Assistant designed for the purpose of transfering files from the old Mac to the new Mac. The steps take me to the point where I'm instructed to restart the old Mac while holding down the "T" key. But nothing happens when I do that. It just restarts and the Migration Assistant on the new Mac still reads "waiting for old Mac to restart".
There has to be a way to do this. I can't install the original applications on the PowerBook from scratch because they were meant to run on Classic. The PowerBook doesn't recognize any of the old Classic installation disks I have from previous Macs (Oddly, the PowerBook has capability to run Classic, but not the actual software-- and no Classic installation disk was provided, unlike the software provided for iBooks. And I can't install any of the System X upgrades because they need to recognize the original application already on the computer in order to upgrade.
I just calculated that if I have to rebuy all the applications I need, I couldn't afford to do it (unless someone can-- or even wants to-- take the old versions off my hands to offset the cost of buying new ones).
There must thousands of graphic designers like me who run a small business and can't afford to re-stock their entire software collection every time they upgrade to a new computer. Why would Apple diss the very people who have been supporting the company (actually keeping it alive) all these years? I don't think they would do that. I'll just have to keep looking for a solution.

Clean install and migration of only one or two program

How does one do a clean install and migrate only one or two applications.

I don't believe there is a "clean install" on the Snow Leopard disk if you launch the install from your standard system boot. I believe you need to:
1) Put the SL disk in the machine drive.
2) Restart your machine.
3) Hold down the 'c' key during startup, to boot from the SL disk.
4) Once the system boots up, it starts the Snow Leopard install process. However, you have a menu bar where you can run several system utilities, such as Disk Utility.
5) Run Disk Utility and erase/reformat the main system harddisk. This will give you a "clean" disk to install Snow Leopard on.
6) After Disk Utility finishes, proceed with the install process.
7) After intallation of Snow Leopard, restore any apps/data you want from backups and/or original installation packages.
Hope this helps,
j0hn

Does Migration Assistant move Mailbox (mail.app) IMAP data?

Recently I used migration assistant to move a user from a Lion machine to a Mavericks machine. I couldn't get it to work via direct ethernet (famous "1 minute remaining" bug) [1] so I migrated from a Time Capsule backup.
After migration the User's mailbox was initially empty, though the smart folder and standard folder configuration was as expected (Gmail IMAP setup).
Overnight the Mailbox refilled -- but Activity Windows suggested it was pulling data from Google, not from a local store.
It's as though Migration Assistant excluded the IMAP data [2], expecting it to be reloaded from source. (In this case it might have worked, but risky for several reasons). One expert I know says this is in fact how MA is supposed to work -- but neither of us could find ANY documentation.
Does anyone know if this is correct? Even better -- have you seen any documentation?
Thanks!
john
[1] In retrospect the source machine was configured for automatic logout and it's possible that the logout attempts confounded MA.
[2] Time Machine's standard exclusion plist suggests IMAP data IS backed up.

I MIGRATED MUSIC AND PHOTOS FROM PC TO NEW IMAC VIA ETHERNET/MIGRATION ASSISTANT. IT SAID that job was completed but i cannot find anyof my stuff. where is it?

i cannot find music, photos or documents after migrating from pc to new imac. both computers said transfer was successful but i cannot find anything. where is it?

It went to a new user Account.
Go to: Apple > System Preferences > Users & Groups to see the new Account.
For more info, see > About Windows Migration Assistant
Notes
This process will create a new user account on your Mac that contains the data migrated from the Windows PC. It will not merge the information with any existing user accounts on your Mac.
This article only applies to migrating from a Windows-based PC to a Mac. For assistance with performing a migration from one Mac to another, please see How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac.
Windows-specific file types, such as .exe files, are not transferred.
You will need to enter your password when you first use an account, such as when you use your transferred email account in the Mail application for the first time.

Show only one mail acct messages at a time?

Is there a way to show only messages from one email acct and not the combined messages from the linked accts in the new Mavericks update using Mail App? I would like to be able to see only messages from one acct and not them all combined together.

Thank you! I feel like an idiot bc I didn't even see the triangle. The new look just threw me off. Thank you!

Migration assistent/Time capsule/mail

I just bought a Macbook Pro and wanted to migrate all my data from my iMac to the new Macbook Pro. First time I tried to migrate all my data from a time capsule backup everything went well, but Mail didn't respond. I thought it was because I had Snow Leopard on my iMac. Then I bought OS X Lion to the iMac, made a new backup with time capsule and then tried to migrate everything again. I got the message that the migration went well. I migrated 2 accounts but on one of them mail doesn't respond at all. Does anyone can help me on that?!

I just realised that the problem started on my iMac. I was so sure that mail was working properly before I did the backup. Now I can't access Time Machine to get back to when mail was working.

HT4796 Migration Assistant Outlook to Mail, No Attachments!

I did successfully transfer all my mail data from Windows Outlook to my new MacBook Pro.
(Transferred to a temp user then imported to main users mail as usual)
All was looking fine, but then I realised that neither the attachments nor the archive .pst came trough. Please help me to recover or retransfer the attachments.
Arhieve file can somhow be transferred using it a main mailbox file, but how can I get attachments??
Thank you
Version 10.7.3 OSX

No reply / common problem / apple migration tools cannot do this / lets dont reply to point the problem out
kind of problem I suppose??

Sir i was get only one mail at my permanent email id at rediffmail and i m not get other mail where the apple server to i login and finish the process whats going on there i suffering from last one week for this one id is it apple or what ?

sir
i was not get any mail at my permanent mail addres [email protected] and this mail id also same at apple so where the apple server for login and finish the process tell me is this way to apple to customer support and this is last mail for this other wise i will go through the public protest comision and i will make
statement for this type of fake process
reply soon

You are not addressing Apple here.
This is a user to user forum, this is spelled out in the terms of service you agreed to when you joined.
There is no Apple server for your email.
servers are set up, used and maintained by whatever email service you use-such as rediffmail.
Go threaten them.

Migration assistant - Only one Mail inbox came accross complete

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