[MlMt] Moving to a new computer

[Robert Brenstein]

On 9 Dec 2018, at 14:14, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 3 Dec 2018, at 18:09, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>
>> Let me piggyback on this thread. My laptop developed hardware issues, 
>> so like OP, I thought to copy the entire MailMate folder from the 
>> Application Support and com.freron.MailMate.plist from Preferences to 
>> the temp computer. Why should  copy just the plists and prefs and 
>> refetch all the mails? With 100k mails in dozen IMAP accounts, this 
>> will take a while.
>
> Well, that depends on the network connection and the IMAP servers 
> involved.
>
> I'm mainly recommending the “clean start” approach to avoid 
> potential issues with a custom location of the Messages folder and any 
> issues arising from restoring from a backup (which is not 100% 
> reliable because MailMate doesn't control the order in which files are 
> backed up). (A clean start also ensures that the database is as small 
> as it can be.)
>
> -- 
> Benny

Okay but I am not talking about restoring from backup but copying the 
folders and files from a hard drive to which MM was writing directly. 
The issue is that the new computer can’t run the older system from 
that drive.

Robert
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