Hi,

If you were using iMap like you mentioned, you may wish to take a look on your 
GMail at the web-mail interface for Google.  These items amy still reside there 
within the All Mail area.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On 2012-11-02, at 8:05 AM, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:

> You might also try the command to show deleted messages in a mailbox, 
> command-l. This actually toggles between showing and hiding deleted messages, 
> so you might be able to find the messages that are still in the mailboxes 
> this way.
> 
> HtH,
> Teresa
> 
> On Nov 2, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'd look first in your inbox  I get the alert that messages could not be 
>> moved, and generally, they show up in the Inbox.  If they are not there, you 
>> should be able to find them in your All Mail folder.  Good luck.
>> 
>> Les
>> On Nov 2, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear List,
>>> 
>>> First of all, a confession. This is not an accessibility or VoiceOver 
>>> issue. However, it does relate to the Mac and given the excellent people 
>>> that contribute to this list, it was hard to pass up the opportunity to ask 
>>> you all for help.
>>> 
>>> I recently decided to reorganise my mailboxes in Apple Mail on my Mac 
>>> running Mountain Lion. I had a folder/mailbox on my Gmail IMAP account 
>>> called Work. I wanted to move this to a different IMAP account I have 
>>> (let's call this account X).
>>> 
>>> • So I created a mailbox called Work on account X.
>>> • I opened the Work mailbox on my Gmail account.
>>> • I selected all the messages in the Work mailbox in my Gmail account and 
>>> moved them to the Work mailbox in account X.
>>> • The Work mailbox in my Gmail account then appeared empty.
>>> • So I deleted the Work mailbox in Gmail.
>>> • However, around 5 or 10 minutes later I got a series of critical alerts 
>>> saying that the messages could not be moved to the Work mailbox in account 
>>> X.
>>> • By this time the Work mailbox in Gmail had disappeared.
>>> • I checked the Work mailbox in account X.
>>> • Some of the messages had move there, some had moved there but no longer 
>>> had a sender or subject field, and some seem not to have moved there at all.
>>> 
>>> I obviously now regret deleting the Work mailbox from Gmail so quickly, 
>>> when all the messages had obviously not had time to copy over. However, 
>>> there was nothing to indicate that the process of moving the messages had 
>>> not worked. I suppose I didn't check the destination mailboxes carefully 
>>> enough.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I've tried all I can think of to recover these messages that did 
>>> not move properly and were presumably deleted along with the Work mailbox 
>>> from Gmail. However, I have had no success. They seem to have disappeared 
>>> irrevocably from my Mac and cyberspace.
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping, however, that one of you brilliant people will be able to prove 
>>> this wrong and tell me where I might be able to find these deleted 
>>> messages. They are not in my Mac's Trash, or the trash folder/mailbox in 
>>> Mail. Nor are they in the deleted messages folder on the Gmail server/site. 
>>> I've tried to find some other trash folder in Mail where they could be but 
>>> could not find anything like this.
>>> 
>>> I do have a back up duplicate of my Mac from several days ago, but I'm not 
>>> sure whether this would be of any use given all my mail uses IMAP.
>>> 
>>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> Nic
>>> 
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