Paul On your first point I’m actually not sure, I never had email boxes other than iCloud, Google and Microsoft and with them I only enter username and passwords then everything gets downloaded from the servers again. What mailboxes are you referring to?
On your second point yes simply copy and pasting applications out of the applications folder should work, but you’ll anyway have to activate them again with licence keys. For example with VMware Fusion you’ll have to enter your licence key again even if you copy the file to your new Mac. BTW you can download older versions of VMware from their website, but as said you’ll need your licence key. > On 01 Feb 2018, at 19:30, Paul Hopewell <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> wrote: > > Hello, > Many thanks for the helpful comments on this. As my current iMac is nearly 10 > years old I would prefer to migrate by re-installing still desirable Apps and > so avoid perpetuating 10 years of accumulated stuff. > > A couple of questions: > > 1. I have a lot of mail boxes which are private to my iMac and are not help > on the mail server. I do not use iCloud.com as my mail server.I have mail set > on in my iCloud options. With is configuration will I have to migrate the > mail boxes on my old iMac to my new iMac or will iCloud somehow help with > this? If not what is the best way to migrate these mail boxes? > > 2. For migrating applications can I simply copy the .APP files from my old > iMac to my new iMac. I know that some applications build other files such as > preferences on first running the application if these files are not already > present. Do all applications do this? I am particularly concerned about > migrating applications not purchased from the Apple APP store. In particular > I am not using the latest level of VMWare fusion and am concerned that I may > not be able to re-download the level I am using from the VMWare web site and > may thus have to pay for a more recent version. > > Many thanks for your help. > > Paul Hopewell > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
