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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 310923" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Would it be possible to simply do this? Without Mac Mail running, use Finder to completely overwrite your home folder's Library/Mail folder with the one you used to have. </p><p></p><p>Now for a little magic. Start up a Terminal session and type the following (we are going to change all those files so that they now belong to your new userid, BEFORE we start up Mac Mail):</p><p></p><p>cd Library</p><p>sudo chown -R youruserid: Mail</p><p>(put in the admin password when asked)</p><p></p><p>and close out the Terminal session. These commands change the ower id (hence "chown" = change owner) of all of the files in your Mail directory and then descends recursively through all of its folders doing the same thing (hence "-R" = recursive).</p><p></p><p>Note, the full colon ":" at the end of youruserid is critical! Don't forget it or the command won't do what you want!</p><p></p><p>Now start up Mac Mail and see what it does. With any luck, you just slid you old Mail setup in right under its feet and it doesn't even notice the difference.</p><p></p><p>... with any luck. I haven't done this before myself, but this is what I would be trying if faced with the same issue. I use Thunderbird myself for email, so I can't test this out with Mail. I have done nearly identical things to Thunderbird's folder hierarchies for the same reasons.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 310923, member: 17052"] Would it be possible to simply do this? Without Mac Mail running, use Finder to completely overwrite your home folder's Library/Mail folder with the one you used to have. Now for a little magic. Start up a Terminal session and type the following (we are going to change all those files so that they now belong to your new userid, BEFORE we start up Mac Mail): cd Library sudo chown -R youruserid: Mail (put in the admin password when asked) and close out the Terminal session. These commands change the ower id (hence "chown" = change owner) of all of the files in your Mail directory and then descends recursively through all of its folders doing the same thing (hence "-R" = recursive). Note, the full colon ":" at the end of youruserid is critical! Don't forget it or the command won't do what you want! Now start up Mac Mail and see what it does. With any luck, you just slid you old Mail setup in right under its feet and it doesn't even notice the difference. ... with any luck. I haven't done this before myself, but this is what I would be trying if faced with the same issue. I use Thunderbird myself for email, so I can't test this out with Mail. I have done nearly identical things to Thunderbird's folder hierarchies for the same reasons. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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