> On Oct 29, 2015, at 07:17, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > It certainly wouldn't hurt anything, but from your description, it may not be > much help. > > The second thing I would do is to quit Mail, go to > ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData, blow away the three Envelope* files, then launch > Mail and let it rebuild them. This may or may not result in some metadata > loss (specifically if you have some third-party Mail bundles) but should > result in no data loss.
It is actually V3 on El Capitan (at least here) and I've done that a number of times already. I've found threads on the web related to smartboxes: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/173882/fixing-smart-mailboxes https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7253672 but none of the proposed solutions worked... I thought it might be an access right issue but an ls -al on the contents of Mail Data all the files belong to me and the staff group. Also, when I say VIP and Flagged do not work, I mean specifically: when I add a VIP, the name appears in the VIP smartbox *but* not the related mails. Same when I flag a mail: the color, if new, will be added to the Flagged smartbox *but* none of the flagged mails will appear. And search does not work at all. Anything I search results in 0 Mails Found in All Mailboxes. Jean-Christophe > >> On Oct 28, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Before doing that, here is what I have now: in Mail, search does not work, >> physical boxes display contents but not of the smart boxes do (VIP does not >> work, Flagged does not work etc.) *but* I can search for Mail contents in >> Spotlight. >> >> After the full account restore I did yesterday the OS did a full reindexing >> of the disk and I guess that's the reason why it works. >> >> So, the problem is related exclusively to Mail. >> >> Do you think reindexing the entire drive again would fix help ? >> >> Jean-Christophe >> >>> On Oct 29, 2015, at 05:33, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> My first remedial attempt would be to reindex the entire drive by adding it >>> to System Preferences / Spotlight / Privacy for 30 seconds, then removing >>> it. >>> >>>> On Oct 28, 2015, at 5:49 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok, I seem to see what is the problem, but I have no clue how to solve it. >>>> >>>> Search does not work anymore in Mail. >>>> >>>> None of my flags are matched (except for sorting "by flag" in one mailbox >>>> window) and all the smartboxes remain empty. >>>> >>>> I think that's what triggered my rebuilding the boxes yesterday which >>>> eventually resulted in removing all the data I had there. >>>> >>>> Ok, so now I have restore everything, the mails are here, but Mail search >>>> in all aspects of search in Mail is dead. >>>> >>>> Any idea how to get that back ? >>>> >>>> Jean-Christophe Helary >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support >>> in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. >>> http://macsrwe.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > -- > Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support > in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. > http://macsrwe.com > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
