Missing Email after switching to New iMac

Just got a new iMac with Mountain Lion. Old computer is a Macbook running Snow Leapord with all upddates applied. About a week before getting the new iMac, I moved my iTunes, iPhoto, and library folders into my Dropbox Folder without any problems. I made daily time machine backups to a small external drive I use for time machine. When I powered up the new iMac, I reached the point where it wanted to know if I wanted to migrate data from another Mac. and had me set up the migration assistant. The migration assistant wouldn't work using wireless or an eathernet cable. Neither Mac could find the other. So I used my Time Machine drive. Everything was transferred ok except my email messages. All of my folders were put in the iMac's Mail app but noe of the messages. Any ideas how to get them off the old machine?

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I just finished migrating to a new iMac (2007 2.16 GHz White Lucite -> 2008 2.83 GHz Aluminum). I used the Migration Assistant after starting up the new iMac to transfer everything. I chose "Transfer from another Mac" (which was actually my SuperDuper! backup on an external FW RAID). Everything seemed fine (I even rebooted first). I logged into my Admin account first and it looked the same. But after logging into my User account and trying to open my apps they were starting as though it was their first time, asking for SN and registration info. Safari has reverted from v4 to v3, Aperture wants SN, and iTunes can't open my library because it was created with a newer version, yet Mail worked fine. What happened? And more importantly, what should I do? I don't want to re-enter SN's and info and re-register my apps.
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I ended up using OS X disc to 'Restore System From Backup' from Time Machine backup. That returned the system back to almost an exact state as before, but a few apps were still asking for SN, and Mail wouldn't open because it had to reload messages. Strangely though, Aperture won't accept the SN now, whereas it did after the first migration transfer.
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Another after-effect from this is Time Machine doesn't see its backup now, even though it's there on the external drive. It showed backup failed and then after I reset/highlighted the correct drive it started backing up under a new folder/computer name. I deleted that but can't figure out how to make TM see the existing BU. This has been a lot of fun.

Missing Mail after transfer to new computer

Hello,
My parents were using an old iMac running 10.3.9 so I gave them a "newer" old iMac, running 10.4.11. They use multiple users and I transferred everything from their old computer to the newer one. For mail, I transferred the "mail folder in the library and the mail.plist from the preferences folder in the library. My father's email account works fine and looks exactly the same.
However, my mother's account is missing emails received before August. Furthermore, many of the emails display the following message when opened: "The message from SENDER<[email protected]> concerning “SUBJECT” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
I have done some research and this problem typically occurs when the mailbox is full or offline. Yet, the mailbox is not full and it is online. Some of these messages can be read on the server's website (comcast.net), but the server only keeps emails for 2 weeks, so any email received before that period is not there.
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Hi DeeCee48, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Unfortunately, my mother's account was already deleted from the old iMac (my father's still exists). Is there any way to try and get it back?
Slight possibilty, You might try Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to, or pot the old iMac in FW Target Mode)...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
What did I do wrong?
What size is her Mail folder?

Why can I not enter my CS6 after buying a new iMac?

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I'll try to recall to the best of my memory what I did... It's been stressful, frustrating, trying to deal with it.
Computers:
1) iMac6,1 (Late 2006) Intel 2.16 GHz Nvidia OS X 10.5.6
2) iMac8,1 (Early 2008) Intel 2.8 GHz ATI OS X 10.5.4
Perform final backup of iMac #1 with TM and SuperDuper!
Shut down and disconnect.
Hook up iMac #2 and power up.
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Transfer complete.
Restart.
Log in.*
* I have both Admin and User account. I noticed things weren't performance was off; log in was slow (Menu Bar items took longer to display, clock too), and generally overall apps,..etc seemed slow. Apps were asking for license and reg info too.
Second attempt (restore system from TM backup):
Startup from OS X 10.5.6 disc.
Erase HD with DU.
Select 'Restore System from Backup'.
Select TM backup.
After that completed, restart computer.
And that brings us to now. Well, sort of.
So what is the proper way to migrate as it were from between two different Intel iMac's? I have to assume I transfered over system files that caused a conflict with the new iMac's HW, correct? What can I do now? I've already performed new backups of both SD! and TM. I didn't think it mattered since either way the backups come from my old system. I'm guessing I should have updated OS X first on the new iMac and only selected User files, Apps, Network settings,.. etc., for transfer, or maybe installed apps fresh. I thought I was doing it correctly.
The new iMac still seems off with performance to me. I've tried performing multiple 'Repair Disk Permissions' too. There are about 32 differing permissions but DU doesn't seem able to repair them as they come up again and again. Here are some examples;
2009-05-15 09:23:47 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:47 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/DVD.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:47 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSettings.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:47 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/FRSources.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:47 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns/Movies.frappliance/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:52 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/CodeResourc es", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:52 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/Resources/P lugins/BlackAndWhiteEffect.IAPlugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:52 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/Resources/P lugins/CubeTransition.IAPlugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:52 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/Resources/P lugins/DissolveTransition.IAPlugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:52 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/Resources/P lugins/DropletTransition.IAPlugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
2009-05-15 09:23:52 -0700: Permissions differ on "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework/Versions/A/Resources/P lugins/FadeThroughBlackTransition.IAPlugin/Contents/CodeResources", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are lrw-r--r-- .
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Any help/insight appreciated.

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wim jans wrote:
Thanks Pondini for helping out.
I found your faq, it is big! I now know how to see my old data again in TM, thanks!
I did something you say is not good: I threw away older backups by the finder. But it seems my backup works still ok.
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