<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I do this quite often, and do something similar.<div><br></div><div>I first open a fresh copy of MM on the new machine and put in the IMAP account info manually, let it download the emails.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I close it down and copy across the various plist files for all the other settings to get my custom set up.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps.</div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Seamus</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 7 May 2023, at 07:51, Michael Nietzold <lists.freron.com@nietzold.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">As I remember I only transfered some plist files with the settings. (Only some bytes or MB) Then all messages are downloaded again from the IMAP.servers. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Von meinem iDingens gesendet...</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Am 07.05.2023 um 01:55 schrieb davecc0000 <davec2468@gmail.com>:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Glenn,</div><div dir="ltr">Thank you very much for your reply. You are my only link to a possible solution. I’ve tried all I know to no avail, and Benny is not reachable (I hope he’s OK…).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When I install MM 1.14 on my new Catalina volume with no migrated messages or settings, it progresses with the initial setup (it immediately asks for the first IMAP address). All seems normal. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If I first copy the folder ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate (7.4 GB) to the new Catalina volume, when I launch MM I see this error:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://imgur.com/drWkmhR">https://imgur.com/drWkmhR</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Re-launching brings the same message.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The Original path is identical for both Application Support/MailMate folders (Sierra and Catalina volumes).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In the Catalina Get Info box I clicked on the “Select New Original…” button and navigated to the Catalina volume’s Messages.noindex folder. Just for grins. Same error when attempting to launch MM.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Any help or even wild suggestions are welcome. I have no Mac email client and my thumbs are wearing out! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,</div><div dir="ltr">Dave</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 3 May 2023, at 10:08, davecc0000 wrote:</blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I’m creating a new boot volume (Catalina) and doing a minimal, manual migration of needed apps.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I downloaded MM from thr Freron server.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I copied</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>~/Library/Application Support/MailMate</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>from the old boot volume (Sierra) to the new boot volume (Catalina).</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>By default (if you don’t enable “Indexed for Finder/Spotlight”), the “Messages” folder is created as an alias pointing to “Messages.noindex”. Does that alias exist, and does it point to your new Messages.noindex folder?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Glenn P. Parker</span><br><span>glenn.parker@comcast.net</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>mailmate mailing list</span><br><span>mailmate@lists.freron.com</span><br><span>https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate</span><br></div></blockquote></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>mailmate mailing list</span><br><span>mailmate@lists.freron.com</span><br><span>https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate</span><br></div></blockquote><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>mailmate mailing list</span><br><span>mailmate@lists.freron.com</span><br><span>https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>