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Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite

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In article <120120151841194205%otto@bogus.address.com>, Otto Pylot
<otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> 
> My wife's MacBook died (video cable) so it was a good time to buy a new
> laptop. She gets my mid-2011 MacBook Air (Mavericks) and I have a new
> MacBook Air (Yosemite) on order. I don't use Time Machine but do have
> my Mavericks Air backed up via CCC on an external HD.
> 
> Moving/reinstalling apps is fairly straight forward but my concern is
> Mail. When I moved up from the old MacBook to the Air, I used Migration
> Assistant and that was a real mess. It took Apple about an hour to get
> my Mail folders, etc migrated successfully to the new Air and setup the
> way I wanted. Being as I'm starting with a brand new, and clean system
> (Yosemite) I'd like to keep it that way and not move any items I don't
> want or have any use for. All I see is the Mail app in the Applications
> Folder and can't find anything else Mail-related that I could copy
> over. I don't even see a plist for Mail.
> 
> Is there a way to copy/paste my Mail folder to Yosemite so that all my
> received/sent mail and mail folders are still intact? Should I just
> create new folders and then copy/paste the contents from Mavericks to
> Yosemite, including my received/sent emails?

You shouldn't use Migration Assistant. You should instead use the
migration options in Set-up Assistant the very first time you start up
the new Mac.

If you create a user on a new Mac and then later use Migration
Assistant, things can get very messy.

The best option would be to leave your existing account with the old
emails (as well as all the other old files you rarely or never use) on
the old MacBook, and set-up a new account for your wife to use. Set-up
the same folder heirarcy on the new laptop. If you *really* need an old
email you can easily look it up or forward it from the old laptop then.

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Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2015-01-12 18:41 -0800
  Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-13 18:26 +1300
  Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-01-13 00:35 -0500
    Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-13 19:03 +1300
      Re: Migrating Apps from Mavericks to Yosemite M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-01-13 15:06 -0500

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