It looks from the postings you quote as if you are simply traversing the early-adopter badlands. Sorry.
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 -- 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
