Hey, thanks very much Rick. I hadn't given up but was certainly stymied and I really appreciate you following up. Once upon a time I could figure out how to problem solve my way through this stuff. Back in the beginning when you'd stay up all night turning off and on half of your extensions and control panels in hopes of finding the sole conflict freezing your Mac Plus. My son and I also built two hackintoshes that served us for a long time when he was 15 so this isn't completely foreign to me. I appreciate the specifics and I'll go back through the many profiles I created and see if I can isolate the mail messages post 2013. From 2007-2012, it's recovered and almost as I originally set it up. I at least have a direction to work in and I'll let you know how it works out. Thanks again, Jack M.

Remember that messages are stored in one file without an extension where there is a pair of files with the same name and the other file has an .msf extension.

I have given you no details for how to do anything. Please ask when you have questions.

Yeah that's what I'm starting with. I remember. I've gathered all these profiles together, and I'm going to go through all of them to search for exactly that, the .msf file paired with the non-msf file. I had a few on the new mini that I just copied and brought back. I'm looking through the Imap folders and Mail folders (including Local folders) for larger entries on the non-msf files. I will post again as I get through these and highlight them on my drive this afternoon. Thank you again, Jack M.

Even if I throw in the towel for conducting the entire profile restore I'll still be around to answer questions and to give hints.