On 18/03/2006, at 7:48 PM, Callum Prior wrote:
Howdy all,
Mail has spontaneously stopped displaying messages in my Inbox, all
other folders seem to be unaffected.
Currently Mail is telling me I have 0 messages in my inbox, 58
unread. As of about 1/2 an hour ago I had around about 200 (read)
emails in my Inbox, which should still be there.
It happened while in normal use, while I was using Mail.
I'm running:
Mail 2.0
OSX 10.4.5
On a dual 1GHz G4
Hi Callum,
Have you tried to Rebuild your Inbox?
Choose Mailbox > Rebuild.
Also,If you used Mail with Mac OS X 10.3, then upgraded to Mac OS X
10.4 Tiger and imported your Mail mailboxes Tiger does not delete
some previous mailbox files.
Over a period of time they can cause problems.
1.Quit Mail.
2.In the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/your POP account folder, and
locate the Inbox.mbox folder.
Open this folder.
Are there files in the Inbox.mbox folder like below?
Content_index
info.plist
mbox
Messages folder
table_of_contents
3. All these files , EXCEPT for info.plist and the Messages folder,
are leftover from Panther format of mailboxes.
You can drag the other files to the trash. You can also trash the
info.plist and just leave the Messages folder untouched.
4. Relaunch Mail.
NOTE: Do not delete any folders, including ".mbox" folders,
".imapmbox" folders, or "Messages" folders." These are used by Mac OS
X 10.4.
Cheers,
Ronni
Car'n The Pies
