Re: Mail to-ing fro-ing
On 29/05/2010, at 2:18 AM, Alex wrote: Hi Peter Per your point 1. above, I do not have a Mail folder in HD/Library/Preferences. Could you have possibly have meant HD/User/Library/Mail as Bob Howell suggested? Also, I do have a POP account and have never used email on the Air, only webmail. Cheers thanks to all, Alex Sorry, I should have explained. What I said was copy the Mail folder from your ~/Library/Preferences folder on the Macbook Pro. The ~ at the beginning of the path denotes your home folder. This is standard UNIX syntax, and and has been been explained so many times on this list I guess I took it as understood. In full, ~ means YourHardDrive/Users/YourAccountName. It literally equates to clicking on the House icon in the Finder Window sidebar. But I reiterate: the easiest way to solve your problem is to copy the Mail folder to your Air as described. Since you have never used Mail on the Air, you will also need to locate the file com.apple.mail.plist in your ~/Preferences folder in your Macbook Pro copy and copy it to your ~/Preferences folder on the Air. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mail to-ing fro-ing
On 28/05/2010, at 8:16 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 27/05/2010, at 11:40 PM, Alex wrote: Hello Wamugians I would like your assistance with an imminent problem. I have a Macbook Pro which is my main computer and a Macbook Air which is my travelling computer. I have Mail set up on the Pro. Next week I am going to Holland for 20 weeks will be taking the Air. While I can manage my emails somewhat using webmail to access delete, I could quite likely still have about 3000 emails to download when I return (going on what happened after a two week trip last year). In that instance, the download fried Eudora, which I was using then, and corrupted a whole lot of my saved emails, merging many together. I don't want this to happen this time. What I am thinking is to copy all the relevant Mail folders across to the Air before I go and then do the reverse when I return. Can someone please let me know which folders I do need to move as opposed to all Mail folders, or how to find that info myself? I have done a search under Finder just now but it only turned up the Mail app and a million other files, none of which seem to be from Mail. Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Alex You don't say whether your email account is using PO3P or IMAP. If it is POP3 (which would be my guess) my best advice would be to make sure that Mail is set to delete the messages from the server once they are downloaded (Mail Preferences Accounts Your Account Advanced). This does carry its own implications, though, the main one being that you will lose synchronisation between what you see in Mail and what you see in webmail. As you will obviously need an internet connection wherever you are in order to read new mail anyway, be it Mail or webmail, this should not be a concern. I would do two things (assuming Mail is set up the same way on both computers): 1. Before you leave, copy the Mail folder from your ~/Library/ Preferences folder on the Macbook Pro to the corresponding location on your Air (after first backing up or archiving the one on the Air of course). 2. When you return, copy the Mail folder back to your Macbook Pro. This way, your the number of residual emails left on the Server when you return should be relatively small. If your account is an IMAP account, then the mail is all managed on the Server side anyway so it's much less of a problem, and you can ignore the above. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. Hi Peter Per your point 1. above, I do not have a Mail folder in HD/Library/ Preferences. Could you have possibly have meant HD/User/Library/Mail as Bob Howell suggested? Also, I do have a POP account and have never used email on the Air, only webmail. Cheers thanks to all, Alex -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mail to-ing fro-ing
look for home (username) / library / mail there are the mail boxes after moving/copying you should do a rebuilt (mailbox / rebuilt) to make sure the emails appear on screen you can force a rebuilt in removing the library / mail / Envelope Index file which is the content list of your mail just be aware it can be a multi gigabyte operation you may have to copy the mail downloads folder aswell cheersJames On 27/05/2010, at 23:40, Alex wrote: Hello Wamugians I would like your assistance with an imminent problem. I have a Macbook Pro which is my main computer and a Macbook Air which is my travelling computer. I have Mail set up on the Pro. Next week I am going to Holland for 20 weeks will be taking the Air. While I can manage my emails somewhat using webmail to access delete, I could quite likely still have about 3000 emails to download when I return (going on what happened after a two week trip last year). In that instance, the download fried Eudora, which I was using then, and corrupted a whole lot of my saved emails, merging many together. I don't want this to happen this time. What I am thinking is to copy all the relevant Mail folders across to the Air before I go and then do the reverse when I return. Can someone please let me know which folders I do need to move as opposed to all Mail folders, or how to find that info myself? I have done a search under Finder just now but it only turned up the Mail app and a million other files, none of which seem to be from Mail. Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Alex Alex Novakovic - Best Computer Accounting MYOB Certified Consultant Mobile: 041 990 2440 Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.' Lao-Tzu -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mail to-ing fro-ing
On 27/05/2010, at 11:40 PM, Alex wrote: Hello Wamugians I would like your assistance with an imminent problem. I have a Macbook Pro which is my main computer and a Macbook Air which is my travelling computer. I have Mail set up on the Pro. Next week I am going to Holland for 20 weeks will be taking the Air. While I can manage my emails somewhat using webmail to access delete, I could quite likely still have about 3000 emails to download when I return (going on what happened after a two week trip last year). In that instance, the download fried Eudora, which I was using then, and corrupted a whole lot of my saved emails, merging many together. I don't want this to happen this time. What I am thinking is to copy all the relevant Mail folders across to the Air before I go and then do the reverse when I return. Can someone please let me know which folders I do need to move as opposed to all Mail folders, or how to find that info myself? I have done a search under Finder just now but it only turned up the Mail app and a million other files, none of which seem to be from Mail. Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Alex You don't say whether your email account is using PO3P or IMAP. If it is POP3 (which would be my guess) my best advice would be to make sure that Mail is set to delete the messages from the server once they are downloaded (Mail Preferences Accounts Your Account Advanced). This does carry its own implications, though, the main one being that you will lose synchronisation between what you see in Mail and what you see in webmail. As you will obviously need an internet connection wherever you are in order to read new mail anyway, be it Mail or webmail, this should not be a concern. I would do two things (assuming Mail is set up the same way on both computers): 1. Before you leave, copy the Mail folder from your ~/Library/Preferences folder on the Macbook Pro to the corresponding location on your Air (after first backing up or archiving the one on the Air of course). 2. When you return, copy the Mail folder back to your Macbook Pro. This way, your the number of residual emails left on the Server when you return should be relatively small. If your account is an IMAP account, then the mail is all managed on the Server side anyway so it's much less of a problem, and you can ignore the above. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
