[crouchingtiger]

Hi,

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I just switched to Mail.app and would like to move the location where it stores its mail.

It current stores it in the user's Library folder, but I would like it to be in another folder in my user directory so it can be backed up using my existing backup scripts. I have tried moving the folder and putting an alias in its place (which works for Eudora) with no luck.

There seems to be a setting in the preferences for this but the pathname is always grayed out!!!

Any help would be appreciated... thanks.

[crouchingtiger]

no one has ANY idea?

[crouchingtiger]

Alright, I figured it out!

Instead of making an alias, you have to make a "symbolic link" which is kind of like an alias with a few differences in how they work.

For instance, when I made the alias, I just clicked on the Mail folder and made the alias, and then moved the Mail folder to its new location.

Doing the same thing with the symbolic link will destroy the link. So, you have to first move Mail to its new location, and then create the symbolic link where it used to be.

The terminal command is "ln -s [old path] [new path].

You can get the paths easily by dragging the folder/file into the Terminal window.

So, to summarize, I accomplished this thing by moving the Mail folder to NEWFOLDER. And then typing in the terminal:

"ln -s /Users/USERNAME/NEWFOLDER/Mail /Users/USERNAME/Library/Mail"

I hope this helps someone out!