Thank you very much for your comments. I agree that it's maddening, but it clearly flip flops in its behavior, which is very odd for a computer. Currently it is behaving the way it used to.
All the best, Andrew Andrew Darlow Editor, The Imaging Buffet http://www.imagingbuffet.com Author, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers - http://www.inkjettips.com and Pet Photography 101: Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or Cat - http://www.PhotoPetTips.com http://facebook.com/andrewdarlow On Sep 18, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't believe it matters how you order your mailing list. It's just that > the algorithm for selecting the next message to view has changed > incompatibly. Now, when you delete a piece of mail, if the message on one > side of it is read and the message on the other side of it is unread, no > matter in what order, the next message to come up will be the one that was > unread. It's not just incompatible with the earlier behavior, it's just plain > inconsistent. > > It used to be that I could wander down the day's mail, and if I found a > message I wanted to put off handling until later, I would just mark it unread > and keep going. But now when I'm finished with the next message and I delete > it, Mail keeps throwing me back to the earlier message because of course it's > marked unread. And it will do that even if the next message is also marked > unread. It now seems to have a preference for going backward whenever it can. > It's just maddening, and I wish they would get rid of it. > >> On Aug 8, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Andrew Darlow <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi folks: >> >> This is the place I turn to when my Mac is giving me a headache. For many >> years, I have been using Apple Mail, and until 10.6.8, when I would click on >> a single message in "Classic View (List)" with the newest mail at the bottom >> of the screen, the delete key would cause the message below the deleted >> message to then be highlighted. Now, unless the message above the unread >> message is read, the messages that's highlighted is above the message I just >> deleted. >> >> Is there any preference or other fix I can use to get back the old behavior? >> >> The "workaround" is to view messages with the newest ones at the top, but I >> prefer them at the bottom. >> >> Thanks for any insight on this. >> >> All the best, >> >> Andrew >> >> Andrew Darlow >> Editor, The Imaging Buffet >> http://www.imagingbuffet.com >> Author, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: >> An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers - http://www.inkjettips.com >> and >> Pet Photography 101: >> Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or Cat - >> http://www.PhotoPetTips.com >> http://facebook.com/andrewdarlow >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
