Following instructions on the MacInstruct website about moving email from one Mac to another, I've ended up with NO mail application at all on the new iMac. I was able to copy the Mail folder and User/Library/Preference/com.apple.mail.plist into the proper iMac file locations using a flash drive (the firewire connection only dumped a bunch of disorganized files into my Documents folder which seemed haphazard). That's when the Disaster happened. I can no longer open Mail at all - first nothing came up when I clicked on Mail. I repaired Permissions, tried an Apple software update, and tried to restore from a backup made yesterday on the Mini (all I had because I hadn't gotten the iMac running everything yet and therefore hadn't backed up which would've overwritten the Mini backup). Now, there's no icon on the desktop and no icon in the Applications folder. I can see the Mail application in Finder where it should be, but unlike Windows (from whence I came originally), I can't see what the executable is to see if creating an alias of it would bring Mail back to life.
Is it possible to restore Mail via the disk that came with the iMac? Or by what other method? If I EVER get Mail back up, can someone point me to a safe, workable method to move my mail, mailboxes, address book, keychain, Safari Bookmarks, and, yes, even Cookies (for those sites that require permanent ones)? I don't dare try to do anything else at this point, so am completely dead in the water. This is my fourth Mac, but on the other three I was moving a virtual machine into them. I've never experienced a problem before on the Mac side with the transfer of Mac applications and data to another Mac.
LeslieT
Is it possible to restore Mail via the disk that came with the iMac? Or by what other method? If I EVER get Mail back up, can someone point me to a safe, workable method to move my mail, mailboxes, address book, keychain, Safari Bookmarks, and, yes, even Cookies (for those sites that require permanent ones)? I don't dare try to do anything else at this point, so am completely dead in the water. This is my fourth Mac, but on the other three I was moving a virtual machine into them. I've never experienced a problem before on the Mac side with the transfer of Mac applications and data to another Mac.
LeslieT