Issues Importing Mail from Tiger back to Panther

[tww]

I had to go back down a level due to a job change. I was running 10.4.2 and using Mail. I'm now trying to get that mail imported in 10.3.9.

I'm getting some of the mail imported but only up until the seemingly random date of August 4. There are also a large number of empty folders which did contain a fair amount of mail.

Anyone have any ideas? Would the Tiger binary xml plist format cause a problem like this?

Thanks,

Tom

[Mikef]

I took Tiger off after running it for a couple of weeks, had great difficulty getting my mail across, I was lucky in that I had both Tiger and Panther running on different Macs and so finally ended up resending to myself. Very Tacky! Many months on and I decided to try Tiger again this time it was a complete disaster I lost about 60% of the mail. Thankfully the important stuff was backed up.

There are a couple of recovery routines around for lost mail & Tiger but I haven't tried looking for hint when regressing the OS.

Mike

[tww]

Too late for me now but maybe this will help someone else. It looks like Tiger stores each mail message seperately (in the emlx format rather than as mbox) to aid spotlight indexing.

You can transform them back with the utility here.

[tww]

Turns out it worked for me after all.

What you need to do is open up the mbox package. Cntrl click on it and select show package contents. The emlx files are in there in a folder called messages. Drag and drop those into the converter linked in the earlier post and you're good to go.

Not that I imagine this will happen to many people but you never know .

[Mikef]

Likewise too late for me but thanks for the tip - have saved it in my panic folder as I'm sure to need it in the future

[mrcqm]

Originally Posted by Mike F

Likewise too late for me but thanks for the tip - have saved it in my panic folder as I'm sure to need it in the future

Out of curiosity do you have a doc in your panic folder that explains what to do if you can't access your panic folder?

[Mikef]

Originally Posted by mrcqm

Out of curiosity do you have a doc in your panic folder that explains what to do if you can't access your panic folder?

Oh Yes!!
As a Windows convert I'm well versed in the practice of rebuilding system software, so much so that Windows98 re-install was a couple of hours job.
So when I switched I brought this technique to my (then) new Mac. OS and applications stored on boot disk, all data stored on second internal disk.
The data disk is now mirrored to an external F/W disk and I have a further two F/W / USB hard disks which are portable and go with me.
Chances of four disks going duff at the same time is negligible so my panic folder is bomb proof!

Mike
PS having seen the tragic event through out the world in the last year I realise the system is not nature proof!!

[mrcqm]

So I guess that's a RAID 1+1+1+1 setup, eh? Quadruple mirroring... yup I'd say you're fairly safe except for the nature stuff you mentioned.