You may get better help with accomplishing that here. Look for a file called "mbox" inside the Downloads folder and all subfolders (recursively), and for each found file, take the "PARENT.mbox" name of the folder/path inside which the mbox file was found, strip the ".mbox" bit from it and apply the remaining "PARENT" bit to the found mbox file. For example, if you exported the mailboxes to your Downloads folder, the script would work as follows: I am not familiar with the macOS Terminal enough to craft a command line that you could use, but I'm sure it can be done. You may be able to batch rename each mbox file to the correct name using a script or command line via the Terminal. Granted, it's going to be a lot of work to do by hand, but that's the only way you will get them to appear in Thunderbird with their corresponding Apple Mail names. Rename this file from "mbox" to LAB and it will be imported with the LAB name. For example, inside the LAB.mbox parent folder, there is a file named mbox. This means, you have to rename each mbox file from "mbox" to the name with which it should appear in Thunderbird. It will only inherit the name of the actual mbox file itself (the files called mbox without any extensions). The Import Export Tools NG add-on is NOT going to inherit the name of the PARENT.mbox mailbox folder when importing the mbox files they contain. This would be the best approach, but as you can see, each imported mbox file does not bear the name of the PARENT.mbox mailbox folder. (I again erased everyting).ģ) But now, if I right click on the WORK sub-folder I created in my Local folders '''in TB''', ask to import mailboxes and select the method: "choose a folder where to look for the Mbox files to import (including sub-folders)" '''then it will correctly import the sub-folders''' BUT without the correct names (see the second attached picture).ĭfgandolfo said 3) But now, if I right click on the WORK sub-folder I created in my Local folders in TB, ask to import mailboxes and select the method: "choose a folder where to look for the Mbox files to import (including sub-folders)" then it will correctly import the sub-folders BUT without the correct names (see the second attached picture). (I then erased everyting).Ģ) If I create a subfolder WORK in my Local Folders directory '''in TB''' and I import all the subfolders of the huge WORK folder, the all hirarchy of the WORK folder is imported but all imported sudirectories are empty. Same thing if I put both the WORK.mbox file with the huge WORK folder in the Local Folders directory '''of my profile'''. I would so much like to leave Mail under Catalina which is a real disaster and TB is exactly what I need!ġ) If I put the huge WORK folder in the Local Folders directory '''of my profile''', nothing appears in TB, only empty boxes. Your suggestions are again very welcome and I thank you again for your help! ![]() Doing it by hand (I don't know whether it's possible) would take me hours with all other mailboxes I have to import. That's where I'm at and even if it seems close to the solution, I don't know how to get the correct names of subfolders. So it seems that this option works but the names of the sub-folders are not correctly transcribed. (I again erased everyting).ģ) But now, if I right click on the WORK sub-folder I created in my Local folders in TB, ask to import mailboxes and select the method: "choose a folder where to look for the Mbox files to import (including sub-folders)" then it will correctly import the sub-folders BUT without the correct names (see the second attached picture). (I then erased everyting).Ģ) If I create a subfolder WORK in my Local Folders directory in TB and I import all the subfolders of the huge WORK folder, the all hirarchy of the WORK folder is imported but all imported sudirectories are empty. Same thing if I put both the WORK.mbox file with the huge WORK folder in the Local Folders directory of my profile. ![]() So here, I already have a difference with your case since in your case, the 2020.mbox file is large whereas it is only 36 bytes in my case.ġ) If I put the huge WORK folder in the Local Folders directory of my profile, nothing appears in TB, only empty boxes. Here, you see that the WORK.mbox folder is only 36 bytes and the mbox file inside is 0 KB, which seems normal to me because my WORK folder does not contain any messages at level 0 but it contains several subdirectories of total size 3,45Gb. When I export it (including subdirectories), I get what you see in the attached image. Suppose I want to export a mailbox called WORK in Apple Mail to TB (like your 2020 folder). Thank you for your help Stans but now I see the difference with your export on Sierra.
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