I just need both Macbooks to be synced, so that if one is down for repair, there's practically no downtime. I am thinking of this so I can bypass the hassle of cloning to an external harddrive first and then restore to the 2nd Mac. Everything else, including the model A1990, and all other specs are the same. Both machines have exactly the same hardware and OS, except that one of them is running with CPU Intel i7, the other with i9, and one has 512GB disk capacity and the other 256GB. Currently I am doing this manually - one by one - for emails I need to keep.Is it possible to clone a Mac directly to another Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner? I just need an answer for macOS 10.13.6.
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… so my wish is for an app or Mail plug-in to select emails (automatically and manually), convert them to PDF files, combine with attachments and place them in a specified macOS folder, perhaps using Hazel-like features to place them in sub-folders. I don’t need the sophisticated database features of Devonthink … However, there is still the requirement for the user to take steps (perhaps in an automated way) to select and store emails within Devonthink. This is an important difference from the Mail app.
My understanding is that Devonthink stores its database in a more transparent way in an accessible ~Library/Application Support/ file (i.e., not “hidden” from Finder) and that its data (except for the database-related metadata) can be backed up and accessed outside the Devonthink app. Backup disk drives (TM, CCC and SuperDuper) are great, but substantial work remains to dig out the well-entrenched Mail data. The proprietary Mail database is well and truly hidden, and difficult to access by means other than the Mail app. I’m moving everything out into DEVONThink but any other option than mail is a good idea.
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… part of my problem with my machine is due to me having tried to use mail as my storage for archive messages for 20+ years. Would that method allow access to the “hidden” library folder? And is this necessary, or can I find the hidden library folder somewhere on the backup TM or CCC backup disks from the 2009 iMac? I suppose I could remove the disk drive from the 2009 iMac, mount it in an external drive enclosure and access its data on my wife’s iMac or on my iMac. You can probably guess how this happened, but I won’t tell unless someone asks ) I still have the old 2009 iMac, but it is not usable because the 30-pin screen connector on the system board is broken. A different library folder is present in the TM and CCC disks, but not the needed “hidden” library folder. But I didn’t think ahead to do thatĪpparently neither the TM nor the CCC backup disks contain the “hidden” library folder (see attached photo). Apparently I should have exported these mailbox (.mbox) files from the old iMac’s Mail app, then import them into the new iMac’s Mail app. How can I recover the “On My Mac” mailboxes (“.mbox” files) from the old 2009 iMac? These are of course not present on the IMAP servers for her various email accounts.Īfter some digging around in my new 2020 iMac, I found the expected location of the “On My Mac” mailboxes (".mbox") files, located in the macOS “hidden” library folder: ~Library>Mail>V7>41E054EB- … (see attached photo). Her iCloud, Mail, Dropbox and 1Password accounts were installed/set up without problems.
Then I manually transferred data files - Documents, Desktop, photos (Photos Library.photoslibrary), Music, Movies, etc. Set up for my wife by erasing SSD, formatted with APFS and “clean install” of macOS Mojave. Previously was my iMac, running macOS Mojave, no problems. “New” iMac: 2014 Retina iMac with original Apple 1TB SSD. External backup disks were made using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner. Old iMac: late 2009 iMac running High Sierra, 1TB HDD. Everything is fine and all works well except that the “On My Mac” mailboxes, where she manually saved certain emails from friends, from the old 2009 iMac are not present on the “new” iMac and cannot be found on the TM or CCC backup disks (see picture below). For my wife I set up a “new (to her)” 2014 Retina iMac with a 1TB SSD to replace her old 2009 iMac with a spinning HDD.
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