Re: question for those of you who do not use Time Machine to migrate data

2021-05-10 Thread Brad Snyder
Donna, A folder that is “On My Mac” will not move to a new Mac automatically as I described. Only folders and content that is on your email providers server will transfer this way. If your provider is for example Gmail, I would suggest you create a folder in your Gmail account called “Mac Stuff

Re: question for those of you who do not use Time Machine to migrate data

2021-05-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Never mind. I think I just found instructions, Donna > On May 10, 2021, at 4:27 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi Brad, > > I know that's true for mail folders associated with email accounts, but what > about others? For example, I have a folder called Mac Stuff where I s

Re: question for those of you who do not use Time Machine to migrate data

2021-05-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Brad, I know that's true for mail folders associated with email accounts, but what about others? For example, I have a folder called Mac Stuff where I save posts, many from this list, that have instructions for doing things on the Mac that I think I might need to refer back to some day. Tha

Re: question for those of you who do not use Time Machine to migrate data

2021-05-10 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
If all of the mail is still on the server, it will be downloaded when you access the account on the new machine. Otherwise, I’m sure there is a transfer process that would be best looked up via your favourite Web search engine.. I think Apple Mail can be exported to mbox format, but I haven’t neede

Re: question for those of you who do not use Time Machine to migrate data

2021-05-10 Thread Brad Snyder
As long as you've set up your mailboxes and accounts in Internet accounts in system preferences, they will show up automatically on your new Mac. You won't really have to do anything. - Brad - On May 10, 2021, at 11:48, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi all, As I have said, my pl

question for those of you who do not use Time Machine to migrate data

2021-05-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, As I have said, my plan with the new M1 Mac is to use Time Machine only to move files. But one thing I am wondering about is how to migrate mailboxes that are on my Mac, that is personal mailboxes that I have created and saved. If anyone could share how they go about doing this, I woul