12/20/2023 0 Comments Emailchemy mac os highsierra![]() ![]() I didn't even have to export it from Apple Mail on my iMac running Sierra. Following various ideas you suggested, I was able to import mailboxes to my laptop running El Capitan. Also this is what IMAP is for - that is using the same email account on more than one device and both devices then sync to the same copies on the server. I do not see why you would want to copy all the emails again, clearly you have previously done this so why do you need to do this again? If only some 'new' emails need transferring then just export those rather than redoing the whole lot. Since you say the desktop was upgraded to Sierra it obviously used to run El Capitan, a backup from that period would still have the old v3 folder which you could copy. However I am guessing maybe your El Capitan Mac is not Sierra compatible. Something else to consider would be upgrading the El Capitan Mac to Sierra then once again both will be using the same version and hence be compatible. While this is far less work than doing each email individually with the quantity of folders and messages you describe it is still going to be a lot of work but at least this is an officially recommend solution by Apple. If you do remove the magic files leaving just the emails then Mail is likely not going to recognise them as valid.Īn option you have already I believe discounted is to in Sierra export as MBOX files, these can then be imported on the El Capitan machine. It is extremely unlikely merely changing the version number in the folder name and copying them would work otherwise there would be no reason for Apple to have used a different version number. As you yourself pointed out they are different now - this is why Apple use a different version number. ![]() It worked before because both computers were running the same version and therefore the files/folders were compatible. Then, when I rebuilt the mailboxes, all the messages disappeared, even the ones that were there before the rebuilding.ĭoes anybody know a foolproof protocol to transfer mailboxes from a Sierra machine (using V4) to an El Capitan machine (using V3)? First, all the messages were there, even before I rebuilt the mailboxes except for the most recent messages in the last year or so. When I copy all the mailboxes in the cryptic file in V4 to Library > Mail > Mailboxes on the laptop, something strange happened. ![]() I now want to copy and transfer all mailboxes (and all the messages in them) from my desktop to the laptop. But my laptop is too old to upgrade to Sierra, so I have to continue using El Capitan. I switched to Sierra on my desktop, and now thus have V4 folder, and all the mailboxes are now in a folder within the V4 folder with the long cryptic name. When both my desktop and laptop were running El Capitan, I could simply copy the V3 folder from the desktop computer to Go > Library > Mail in the laptop, and then, after I open Mail on the laptop, all I have to do was to "rebuild" all the mailboxes, and all the messages would be there. Does anybody know how to transfer mailboxes from the V4 folder (under Sierra) to the V3 folder (under El Capitan)? ![]()
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