Apple Mail caches a sort of table of contents for all of your mail messages in a sidecar SQL database. It does store the actual text of your mail, one file per message, but the database is faster, so it usually just reports what it finds in the database. In some cases of migration, depending on the tool you used and how successful it was, the files get moved over but they're not merged into the database. The rebuild process basically rescans the original, raw text files and reassembles a table of contents of them into the database.
> On May 24, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Arden Currie <ardcur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks that seemed to work. I have never had to use Rebuild in 14 years of > using Apple Mail. Always learning new stuff. I called Apple support and their > answer was to wipe the drive and migrate once more. > Thanks for responding. Arden > >> On May 24, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Macs R We <macs...@macsrwe.com> wrote: >> >> First try rebuilding the mailbox exhibiting the problem. Use Mailbox / >> Rebuild. >> >> You don't say whether you are using POP or IMAP access on that email >> account. I would guess POP, but the diagnosis is different for this symptom >> depending. > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
