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Good Day To All!
I've search for the answers to a couple of archive questions, but managed to get myself confused. If you all don't mind, I would like to verify a couple of items with you folks.
Background-
I had one of my SBC (Yahoo) mail accounts hijacked despite the giant and complex password. Yahoo would not let me change my password, but oddly I was able to make the account inactive. They said I had to go through AT&T and AT & T said I had to go through Yahoo. Goofy, but true! (Hello GMAIL, Nice to meet you!)
Since I had to euthanize the account, I saved the InBox and Sent folders using Mail App's (really easy & quick) Archive function. I would like to remove the defunct account from Mail App completely. I also would like to move the archives to a DVD disk & erase them from hard drive on my Mac
I was going to make a giant docx or txt file with copy-paste, but since I will only need to view an old message once in a great while, re-importing the mailboxes isn't too much bother.
The Questions-
If I remove the old account completely using Mail Preferences, will the archives still open OK when I import them back to On My Mac?
Will the attachments still be there?
Is moving the file off the local hard drive OK, too?
I do have an automatic Crash Plan off site back up account as well. But, I think if I restore the Mail folder, my existing Mail boxes get over-written. I'm too chicken to try.
Just wanted to verify before I nuke the account.
Thanks Very Much!
Paul
PS: I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and Mail is Version 4.6 on a id-2006 MacBook Pro
I've search for the answers to a couple of archive questions, but managed to get myself confused. If you all don't mind, I would like to verify a couple of items with you folks.
Background-
I had one of my SBC (Yahoo) mail accounts hijacked despite the giant and complex password. Yahoo would not let me change my password, but oddly I was able to make the account inactive. They said I had to go through AT&T and AT & T said I had to go through Yahoo. Goofy, but true! (Hello GMAIL, Nice to meet you!)
Since I had to euthanize the account, I saved the InBox and Sent folders using Mail App's (really easy & quick) Archive function. I would like to remove the defunct account from Mail App completely. I also would like to move the archives to a DVD disk & erase them from hard drive on my Mac
I was going to make a giant docx or txt file with copy-paste, but since I will only need to view an old message once in a great while, re-importing the mailboxes isn't too much bother.
The Questions-
If I remove the old account completely using Mail Preferences, will the archives still open OK when I import them back to On My Mac?
Will the attachments still be there?
Is moving the file off the local hard drive OK, too?
I do have an automatic Crash Plan off site back up account as well. But, I think if I restore the Mail folder, my existing Mail boxes get over-written. I'm too chicken to try.
Just wanted to verify before I nuke the account.
Thanks Very Much!
Paul
PS: I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and Mail is Version 4.6 on a id-2006 MacBook Pro