That happens when Apple Mail auto-saves a draft of an email you're writing
while you're writing it. Mail then deletes the emails but Gmail keeps a copy of
them in the Trash. Go to the Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > your gmail
account > Mailbox Behaviours > untick 'save drafts on server'
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On 23 Jun 2014, at 07:35, Gillian Snoxall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Keith,
>
> That's an interesting - and worrying - thought.
>
> I often find the same thing in Draft and Trash - i.e. that the computer is
> dumping things into those mailboxes after each word of typing, so that one
> email is recorded many times. Here is a screen shot of the current
> "conversation" in Trash:
>
> <Screen Shot 2014-06-23 at 07.28.41.png>
>
> Have you seen this before, Sam, and what do you suggest I should do about it?
>
> Gilly
>
>
> On 22 Jun 2014, at 08:43, Keith Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sam & Gilly
>>
>> Taking the results of opening shown on "screenshot 2014-06-21", it would
>> seem that there are a large number of files created on the current date with
>> the same name of the earlier date as a title. This might have somehow been
>> done in the Finder, possibly with a key being accidentally depressed and
>> repeating an action?
>> So these files may still exist on hard disk after the history is cleared
>> (ie: deleted).
>> Would it not be a good idea to open one of these many apparently duplicated
>> files ("2014-06-15") to make sure that somehow they could all be files that
>> have erroneously been renamed yesterday but will be still intact as files
>> with changed name and are still wanted?
>>
>> Keith
>> ==============================================================
>
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