When exporting and then importing Apple Mail from one mac to another I get "Some messages could not be imported. Partially imported mailbox will be labeled IMPORT" . That mailbox does not appear.

When exporting and then importing Apple Mail from one mac to another I get "Some messages could not be imported. Partially imported mailbox will be labeled IMPORT" . That mailbox does not appear.
Any help would be welcome

This is a bug in Mail. The mailbox archiving function does not include attachments, which gives the error with the import. To workaround this you can create a mailbox in Mail and copy to it all emails you want to export. Then go in Finder to [user]/Library/Mail/Mailboxes en select the created mailbox. Copy this to the public directory of your other mac. Then start Mail on that other mac and import the mailbox from the public directory. Should work now.

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How does one go about this? What somewhere is needed to make it all work?
Thanks in advance.

you can't screen share between 3 computers. but you can between two. the easiest way is via ichat. users need to log into ichat on both computers and then you can send a request to share screen via ichat. it's also possible to do it without ichat but that might be more difficult that your mother can manage if she is not too computer savvy which I suspect is the case here. first she has to enable screen sharing in her system preferences->sharing. that's easy. but if she has a router (does she) then she need to port forward port public port 5900 on the router to the port 5900 on her computer so that you can get through the router when trying to screen share from outside. particular instructions on port forwarding depend on the router model. once the port is forwarded you can vnc to here computer from where you are by going to go menu-.connect to server in finder. then in the popup enter
vnc://ip.address
where the ip.address is the ip address of her router. she can find it out by going to this website for example
http://www.whatismyip.com/
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I have 3 months worth of mail on my laptop, and I want to transfer it to my desktop, what is the easiest way to do this? The laptop is a PowerPC Macbook Pro running 10.5, the Mac Pro is running Lion. It's about 2000 messages.
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There is a bug when doing “export mailbox” and import mailbox functionality.
Workaround:
> Open Finder and under the “Go” menu, hold down the option key. The “Library” sub-menu will show up.
> Copy the entire “Library > Mail” folder to a USB disk (it will not work if copying to a shared drive for some reason)
> Take the USB disk to the new computer and do an “Import Mailbox” and select the copied Data file. There will be LOTS of folders that come up for import, you can browse through and deselect what you don’t need (e.g. trash or junk mail), OR just import everything and then clean up from your mailbox.
> The imported folders will show up in mail under the “On My Mac” area.

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I've searched through Apple Support, but the closest match is migrating from a PC to a Mac. Not quite what I'm looking for.
This seems like a pretty standard question. Hopefully someone out there can walk me through it.
Thanks!
Steve (aka Twitchy)

Hi Steve,
The best most complete method would be to use Migration Assistant to Migrate everything, but if they're networked with File Sharing enabled on the older one, then connect using the G5's username & Password, then on the new Mac use Mail>File>Import Mailboxes>Apple Mail...

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Hi There,
I want to copy all my emails (pop account) from the harddisk of mini Mac OS X 10.4.6 to my PowerBook OS X 10.4.6. How to do? I tried it through .Mac but that doesn't work (when synchronising the source with .Mac the emails don't appear in Mail of .Mac.
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Tom & Stuart
yes, Mail-File-Import Mailboxes will do it for the email messages & folder structure ( but not the account settings, perhaps?)
Copy the Mail folder from A to (say) the desktop on B
then on B, use Mail-file-import mailboxes-mail for mac OSX & point the importer to the copy of A's Mail folder.
The messages/folders will indeed appear inside an 'imported' folder, but can be moved freely from that.
Tom -
you may find, as I suggested, that you can't use the account on B that was on A.
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I am an iphoto novice and need some help to understand why my pictures are blurry. I have two imac computers in different places. I e-mailed myself 20 photos from one computer (where they look and print perfectly) making them all into smaller files for sending. I have now tries opening the pictures on my other computer Mac OSX 10.5.8 and all the photos are blurry, is there anyway of restoring them back to their original or am I going to have to print them off the original computer. The orignal computer is slightly older although I may have upgraded to iphoto 9 whereas the one I can't open the photos on is iphoto 8. If I need to upgrade how do I go about doing this.
You need to tell us more for a definitive answer- like exactly how you did the e-mailing and describe blurry and how you are seeing that (mail, preview, iPhoto, etc.)
making them all into smaller files for sending.
this is most likely the problem - smaller photos have less resolution and quality - for best results you would send full size photos are maximum quality - when you choose to reduce the quality you will get "reduces quality"
is there anyway of restoring them back to their original
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Thnx

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I have categorized several hundred emails on the MacBook into a separate "mailbox" by itself. Let's just call it "Project XYZ emails" for the sake of discussion.
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Thanks! Seems to have worked.
Once I imported tham, I had to fiddle around renaming mailboxes and "moving" the emails to the desired locations, but that only took a minute. So overall, seems like that's the solution! I only wish that the steps to do this were made clearer by Apple in the Mail "help" menu -- where I couldn't find any mention of how to do this.
A happy ending, in any event.
In case anyone reads this in the future, let me add in the missing steps, to make it perfectly clear:
In Mail, choose 'archive mailbox' from the mailbox menu.
+Copy the newly created archived mailbox file, which will probably be a file with the suffix ".mbox," from the original machine to the second machine.+
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Done!

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