Mail.app and System Reinstall Horror Story
Loz Gray at LozWorld tells a story of ever-mounting horror
about his attempt to reinstall Mail.app and its messages after reinstalling Mac OS X.
The horror begins when he copies his com.apple.mail.plist file from the new machine to the backup, overwriting the original, and goes downhill from there.
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Tags: Apple Mail, backup, envelope.index, mail.app, mailboxes, system restore, tales of woe

February 8th, 2006 at 3:31 am
Sorry, have been setting the blog up today, so the post in question now resides at a slightly different location:
http://lozworld.com/2005/12/20/the-great-christmas-rebuild
Thanks for the link btw.
February 8th, 2006 at 6:54 am
No worries. Thanks for letting me know.
BTW, I was glad to read the happy ending. :)