> On Oct 29, 2015, at 07:37, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks from the postings you quote as if you are simply traversing the > early-adopter badlands. Sorry.
Thanks :) Things used to work a few days back though... Anyway, I can sort of work around that by sorting my boxes by flags for the moment. But missing search is a huge pain. Jean-Christophe > >> 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
