Betty,
Thanks for your suggestions. This is the first time that I've had such
a problem.
I'll try Thunderbird when I have some time.
"Have you backed up your email files this month? week? ever?"
I use Time Machine, so backups are made every hour.
"Do you know where the preference/data files are located?"
If that is "com.apple.mail.plist" then yes, I know where it is.
Alvin
On Nov 5, 2008, at 8:57 AM, betty 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.
...snip...
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.
This is the best argument I've seen for avoiding Apple's Mail
program--the data structure is complicated, as in OE. It's not so
complicated in Mozilla's Thunderbird, so fewer things are likely to
go wrong. I dumped Apple Mail ages ago after using it for only a
couple of weeks. Went back and tried it again last week and dumped
it again.
Have you backed up your email files this month? week? ever? Do you
know where the preference/data files are located?
Betty
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