[LarsCA]

I searched all the forums for help about mail and emails disappearing, but nowhere did I find an answer to my specific problem.

I just updated from OS 10.2.8 to Tiger. Before installing Tiger, I backed everything up to my external HD using Carbon Copy. Then I erased my HD before installing Tiger, and so far everything has worked out just fine except for mail.

I can't get my old emails. I tried to import them using the import function in Mail, but it only imports the mailboxes, not what's in them.

I tried to copy over all the old mailboxes in my backup -->library->mail->everything in here, but that didn't help either (it worked for all my contacts in AddressBook though).

Can anyone tell me what I should try to do? Is there a problem because I'm trying to jump from 10.2.8 to 10.4.1? Exactly which files should go where, and how should I get them there? Should I rename some files, delete others?

I really need my old emails, and I know they are there (there's got to be a reason some of these files are 100MB or so), but how can I get Mail to see them?

[all2ofme]

If I've understood your problem correctly what you need to do is Import / Other, instead of Import / Mail

That should then pick up your messages. In some cases I had more emails in my folders after doing this than I had pre-Tiger, though no idea why.

Post back if this doesn't do it for you.

[LarsCA]

Originally Posted by all2ofme

If I've understood your problem correctly what you need to do is Import / Other, instead of Import / Mail

That should then pick up your messages. In some cases I had more emails in my folders after doing this than I had pre-Tiger, though no idea why.

Post back if this doesn't do it for you.

What I did was I deleted the mail folder in library, then started from scratch. When importing mail from my backed up library folder, all my old emails and mailboxes appeared just fine. However, they're all gone again when I shut down Mail and reopen it. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Also, where did that spiffy "swoosh" sound go when sending mail in Panther? Not a big deal, but I liked it.