Moving Mailsmith (and its data)

[Neil Barstow]

Hia Mailsmith fans,

I hope the new year is off to a good start for you all

I have decided [after failing with Devonthink3] that to "archive" my old Mailsmith correspondence the easiest way is to run Mojave as a virtual machine in Parallels [which I have already]. It was suggested here by Patrick to use a VM and seems a solid solution.

Not sure that would work on a newer Mac [does anyone know, like one that came with Big Sur or Monterey?], but on my old Mac Mini it should be fine as it's happy with Mojave.

My question (it's been SO long I totally forget) is what do I have to copy over to the new OS? The app, its folders (what folders are they that need moving please)

I'd be super grateful for any advice you can offer, please. 

I had a search the other day, what a lovely app Mailsmith is/was when it came to serious searching!

thanks friends

Neil B

[Patrick Woolsey]

On 2/16/22 at 3:00 PM, neilb...@gmail.com (Neil Barstow) wrote:

>Not sure that would work on a newer Mac [does anyone know, like one that
>came with Big Sur or Monterey?], but on my old Mac Mini it should be fine
>as it's happy with Mojave.

The latter should certainly do the job.

>My question (it's been SO long I totally forget) is what do I have to copy
>over to the new OS? The app, its folders (what folders are they that need
>moving please)

You need only copy over:

a) the Mailsmith app,

b) your Mailsmith data folder, and optionally

c) your Mailsmith preferences.

Mailsmith's data folder is (clearly enough ;-) named "Mailsmith
User Data" and its default location is

/Users/USERNAME/Mail/Mailsmith User Data/

where "USERNAME" is the short name of your Mac login account,
while your Mailsmith prefs are stored in the standard location of:

/Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.mailsmith.plist


Regards

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>

[Neil Barstow]

Patrick,

thanks so much, that's super useful

I just can't bear to completely say goodbye to Mailsmith and running it under emulation (Parallels/ Mojave) is a great idea to enable that.

Have a good week

Neil B

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[Neil Barstow]

Patrick

In library/preferences/ as well as 

/Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.mailsmith.plist

I found a folder called: 

com.barebones.mailsmith.PreferenceData

containing folders called:

Recent Files & Favorites

Recent Folders & Favorites

They appear to be empty folders but there seemed no harm in copying them too 

Again, much appreciated

Mailsmith seems to be working beautifully.

Neil

[Patrick Woolsey]

Hi Neil,

Happy I could be of help, and your surmise that there is no harm
in copying those two 'recent items' folders was correct. :-)

Regards,

-- Patrick