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On 30/03/2010, at 6:44 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, Ronni,
I have the setting for Permanently erase deleted messages as
'never', because I do sometimes have to go back to something there.
I rely on the procedure of flushing some of the oldest every month.
Is this likely to be the problem? Tomorrow, I will try setting it
to 'one month' and see if it helps.
One month would be better. You don't want to clog up mail.
When you say
Select the mailbox. Select "rebuild" from the Mailbox menu.
you are referring to selecting the mailbox on the Mail preferences
panel? The Rebuild option is greyed out. I have 2 other accounts,
and they are both greyed out too.
No, Rebuild Mailbox:
Highlight (click once) each of the Mailboxes & Choose Mailbox>Rebuild
Rebuild recreates the index to the messages and does not cause them to
be lost.
During Rebuild all messages will briefly disappear from the list of
messages, but they will reappear.
Thanks,
Pat
On 30/03/2010, at 2:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Pat,
In Mail > Preferences > Accounts 'Move deleted messages to the
Trash mailbox' - 'Permanently erase deleted messages when':
what do you have in Permanently erase deleted messages when … ?
Firstly, try this:
Select the mailbox.
Select "rebuild" from the Mailbox menu.
Does that help?
Certainly don't even think about upgrading to OS X 10.6.3 UNTIL you
have this issue sorted.
As I have said numerous times on WAMUG List "Do Not Upgrade if
anything is amiss with your system".
As is the case with all updates, if there's anything at all amiss
with your system before the update, the update is likely to expose
them.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 30/03/2010, at 2:37 PM, Pat wrote:
Just noticed a further bit of weirdness with the scrambled e-
mails: the dates on them once they are in Trash on my Mac are
more than a year out of date, and the topics are also in the
distant past. I have always made a point of emptying Trash on my
Mac periodically, when it built up to several thousand. Are those
long-gone e-mails still hanging around somewhere in the bowels of
my Mac? Ugh.
I hope someone has some idea about a fix.
Pat
On 30/03/2010, at 2:09 PM, Pat wrote:
Starting yesterday, Mail is refusing to delete e-mails that I try
to discard as I read through my many e-mails from several
different lists. The message that appears says: The message
"(Sender name, subject line)" could not be moved to the mailbox
"Trash - On My Mac" The operation couldn't be completed. File
exists
And then there is a questionmark button and and OK button. (The
questionmark button doesn't seem to do anything useful.)
I can delete an e-mail by clicking Option-delete, but it is clumsy.
It is an intermittent problem - a few e-mails will delete as they
should, then the message turns up again.
Something that seems very weird is that when I look at the e-
mails in the Trash on my Mac, some of them seem to have been
scrambled - that is, the Sender and the Subject line in the Mail
application window are different than what appears in the e-mail
itself. Names and subjects from one source get mixed with names
and subjects from another e-mail list.
I'm using OS 10.6.2; I ran repair permissions which didn't
improve this problem. Also deleted everything that was in Trash
on my Mac, several times.
I'm wondering if I should try to get this problem sorted out
before doing a backup and installing the 10.6.3 update, or if the
update might fix it.
Is there anything I could do?
Pat
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