Thanks Al and Harry! I thought maybe I had missed some menu command that would have just brought in all the mail directly into the mailboxes, instead of importing it inside of copies of the mailboxes, but I guess not. And I'm not savvy enough with Automator or Applescript to be able to automate the task.
I think you're right about doing it manually being the safest way, Al, and I did it the way you suggested, Harry, selecting big batches of the old empty mailboxes and deleting them, then moving all the imported mailboxes out of the Import folder and deleting that too. The only trouble I ran into was that the imported "Inboxes" were also inside of folders, and the old Inbox, Drafts, and Sent boxes up at the top of the window refused to be replaced by the new imported ones. So to get around that, I had to go inside the imported mailboxes, choose (highlight) the messages in big batches, and control-click on them to get Move To > (desired mailboxes), and move all the messages into the old mailboxes that way. A bit of a hassle, but at least I got all the mail back! I wonder why trying to use that sick flash drive only corrupted Mail, and nothing else? Mail seems pretty fragile. Anyway, everything turned out all right in the end, and I thank you much for the help! Tom Thomas Baker Art website at http://www.ThomasBakerPaintings.com YouTube videos: <http://tinyurl.com/6e698m> Archaeology website at http://www.nmia.com/~jaybird/AANewsletter/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
