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Transfering mailboxes between computers
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Nov 10, 2004, 09:45 PM
 
What files do i need to transfer from my old hd to my new one to make mail work? I tried, but somehow it doesn't display the messages, despite having the mbox files in the correct folder. I just drag/dropped them, but I have also (now) tried importing. I guess i'm going to go re-transfer, and see if they were corrupted somehow...

What files should i delete, and how should i import them? It seems to me this wasn't a big deal last time i upgraded hds... but i can't remember what i did differently.

Thanks in advance.

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Nov 10, 2004, 11:24 PM
 
Originally posted by poocat:
What files do i need to transfer from my old hd to my new one to make mail work? I tried, but somehow it doesn't display the messages, despite having the mbox files in the correct folder. I just drag/dropped them, but I have also (now) tried importing. I guess i'm going to go re-transfer, and see if they were corrupted somehow...

What files should i delete, and how should i import them? It seems to me this wasn't a big deal last time i upgraded hds... but i can't remember what i did differently.

Thanks in advance.

poocat.
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