In Mountain Lion the Mail Signatures are no longer stored in .webarchive but in .mailsignature files
using
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1403888/
- http://regischapmandesign.com/blog/files/convert-web-archive-files-into-HTML.html
I have found a 'hack' way to convert them so you can have your signatures working, but I am sure there is a better solution out there.
a) in Mail recreate blank signatures to match your old ones.
- this will create new .mailsignature files
- I put some large text in them so I could identify them later
b) Now close Mail down
c) open up finder and navigate to
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures
- here you should now see your old .webarchive and new .mailsignature files
d) open up a terminal window and navigate to the same location
e) convert your .webarchive files to html files using the command in the terminal window
textutil -convert html <name>.webarchive
f) in a editor (I used TextMate) edit the .mailsignature and cut and paste to replace the <body>...</body> with that from the old .webarchive file.
g) repeat for each of your signatures
i) Now using finder click 'get Info' and then select locked, so that Mail does not over write this
h) Now open up Mail again and check all is ok
Notes
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- If you have any styling, this has to be inline
- I tried with <head> but styling is not being shown
Hope this helps
Regards
Mark
http://www.bamboorocketapps.com
using
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1403888/
- http://regischapmandesign.com/blog/files/convert-web-archive-files-into-HTML.html
I have found a 'hack' way to convert them so you can have your signatures working, but I am sure there is a better solution out there.
a) in Mail recreate blank signatures to match your old ones.
- this will create new .mailsignature files
- I put some large text in them so I could identify them later
b) Now close Mail down
c) open up finder and navigate to
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures
- here you should now see your old .webarchive and new .mailsignature files
d) open up a terminal window and navigate to the same location
e) convert your .webarchive files to html files using the command in the terminal window
textutil -convert html <name>.webarchive
f) in a editor (I used TextMate) edit the .mailsignature and cut and paste to replace the <body>...</body> with that from the old .webarchive file.
g) repeat for each of your signatures
i) Now using finder click 'get Info' and then select locked, so that Mail does not over write this
h) Now open up Mail again and check all is ok
Notes
--------
- If you have any styling, this has to be inline
- I tried with <head> but styling is not being shown
Hope this helps
Regards
Mark
http://www.bamboorocketapps.com
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