[Ti] Creating a CD Copy of E-mail

[John McGibney]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Scott Strehlow wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:41 PM, John Sparks wrote:
>> Question: I would like to make a CD copy of my e-mail on it.
>> What do I need to know to copy my In-box and be able to read it
>> when I replace my desk-top CPU. Thanks to one & all.
>
> Based on the headers in your message, you are using the Apple  
> Mail.app, right?  If so, I think you just need to copy the /Users/ 
> <your username>/Library/Mail folder to the CD, then copy that onto  
> the new machine.  I'm not sure if that will get all of your  
> settings, but I think it will.  All of your mail folders are in  
> this path.  You should be able to do this with Finder as  
> permissions are not so critical.  If it doesn't work, run a "fix  
> permissions" on it and try again.
>
> Please note that I have not actually had to do this, but it should  
> work.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Scott Strehlow, RDA, CDA, BS

You also need to copy a file called:
com.apple.mail.plist
from your user/you/library/preferences folder

Of course if the desktop model is bootable you could use Migration  
Assistant to copy your user folder to the new machine.




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