[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Zvi Biener]

For the record, I’ve copied the entire MailMate folder using Finder, 
with no detectable problem. Many of my emails are on an Exchange server 
that doesn’t deal well with tags, so this was pretty much necessary. 
I’d be interested to know if there are problem underneath that I 
simply never detected.

On 6 Dec 2018, at 12:42, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> On 6 Dec 2018, at 18:26, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>> On 6 Dec 2018, at 11:36, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>>> Benny or anyone else…
>>> Why should we copy just the plists and prefs and refetch all the 
>>> mails? If I follow the recommendation below, that what we should do. 
>>> However, with 100k mails in dozen IMAP accounts, this will take a 
>>> while. I would rather copy the entire MailMate folder from the 
>>> Application Support and com.freron.MailMate.plist from Preferences 
>>> to another computer. Direct copy is fast.
>>
>> I tried that. It was ugly, because I used 'rsync' without the flag to 
>> replicate extended attributes, which MM uses to store a message UID. 
>> I was fortunate to have been watching how the whole process worked...
>>
>> So *MAYBE* you can make it work but you should make absolutely 
>> certain that you replicate extended attributes and when you fire up 
>> MM afterwards, WATCH what MM does and be prepared to kill it and work 
>> out any issues you have.
>>
>> I can't imagine Benny recommending mail cache replication, given the 
>> risks that it carries.
>
> Would copying a folder in Finder not copy all the attributes?
> If I refetch all my mails, what about all the flags and tags that I 
> have set on my mails? Hundreds of them.
>
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