How to import your Email to a New Apple Computer
Description: This article will show how to add files that you have backed up from your old Apple computer onto the new one.
- Plug the drive that you have copied your files to into the computer - our files were stored in Mail Backups Jan_20_2013.
- Quit Mail if it's running.
- In the Finder, navigate to your \your hard drive name\Library\Preferences.
- Copy the com.apple.mail.plist from Mail Backups Jan_20_2013 and paste it into \your hard drive name\Library\Preferences.
- Open the Mail folder.
- Copy the MessageRules.plist file to the from the Mail Backups Jan_20_2013 and paste it into \your hard drive name\Library\Mail. Also, do the same with SmartMailboxes.plist that is in your Mail Backups Jan_20_2013.
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