Tom,
Thanks for your suggestions. I'll turn off ClamXav.
David K Watson sez:
"You are right that you can't rebuild the inbox. However, expand
the inbox (click on the right-pointing triangle next to the inbox)
and you should be able to rebuild each of the single account
inboxes under the main inbox."
I tried it, and it worked.
Alvin
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the
INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and
the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox
folder is empty.
1) You should not run antivirus software on your Mac because there
are no
Mac viruses. What ClamXav spotted were Windows viruses at most. You
have
no reason to worry about them. They won't spread.
2) You should never allow any antivirus program to mess with your
email
data. The data structure managed by your email program is complicated.
Your antivirus program hacked at it with no knowledge of how these
files
are managed. It deleted the contents of a mail file, but may not have
deleted the file itself and it certainly did not adjust the index
file to
match. So the email program's index is pointing to a file that is
empty
or not there. Hence a ghost file.
3) Two problem messages out of 1.45 GB of messages. Why are you
spending
any time on this? The odds are that in messing with this you will make
things much worse. I would leave it alone.
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