[MlMt] moving tags to a new Mac

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 12 Apr 2024, at 14:46, Eric Sharakan via mailmate wrote:

> Hmm, so it looks like I asked this very question when I migrated to my 
> current Mac in 2018, and the answers back then were not encouraging. 
> :-( I now have a vague recollection of manually re-generating my tags. 
>  It was not fun.
>
> I'm hoping someone has since come up with a better method (perhaps via 
> a bundle of some sort?) to accomplish this.  The thought of losing 
> access to all the tags associated with my work email is unbearable.  
> The thought of manually re-creating them is out of the question; my 
> tags usage has exploded in these past 6 years.

Sorry about the late response to this one. I don't know of any automated 
or easy ways to do this. The easiest would likely be to have copied the 
entire MailMate folder (Library/Application Support) which would include 
the database files storing this information.

This also underlines the problem with local-only tags in general. They 
would also be lost if rebuilding the database. There's always some data 
loss risk in using tags with Exchange accounts.

When IMAP keywords are supported by the server then MailMate is very 
robust with regards to never losing this information, but that is far 
from true when Exchange is involved (and possibly a few other rare IMAP 
servers).

> Benny, I'm a programmer, and would be willing to try to write a bundle 
> to accomplish this, if you can give me the info I need to extract the 
> tags from my old laptop and re-introduce them to the messages in my 
> new one.

Exporting tags is possible but importing tags is not possible as it is 
now (with a bundle command) -- or at least very hard.

(Special case: If tags are used in a mutually exclusive way then it 
would be possible to create a folder in the Exchange account for each 
tag and then move messages into these mailboxes to do the migration 
using folders.)

Maybe I'll come up with a good solution some day... At least one making 
database rebuilding more robust (but that won't solve your problem).

> On 11 Apr 2024, at 21:04, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm in the process of migrating to a new Mac.  I've copied most 
>> of the MM config & settings over from my old Mac and most things are 
>> working fine.  But one problem I have is the tags for my corporate 
>> email account (which uses Exchange).  Since Exchange doesn't support 
>> tags, they're not available on the new Mac.
>>
>> Is there any way to do a one-time copy of the tags from my old Mac to 
>> the new one?

-- 
Benny
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