[X4U] simple Mail backup

Neil Laubenthal neil at laubenthal.net
Mon May 7 15:58:30 PDT 2007


You'll need to backup ~/Library/Mail. Then you can restore that  
folder after recovering from the drive failure, fix the permissions  
appropriately, and it should work.



On May 7, 2007, at 16:46, Xavier Noria wrote:

> I've bought an external drive. If I simply drag the Mail folder  
> there could I recover my email with Mail.app in case of hard-disk  
> failure?
>
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