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 Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948
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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
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