Sorry its Mavericks 10.9.5 Bill On 31 Oct 2014, at 13:22, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill, > > You don't mention what version of OS X you are running. If running Lion > /Mountain Lion/ Mavericks or Yosemite > > If you suspect that a mailbox contains errors, the standard cure-all is to > rebuild it. To do this, select the mailbox (or more than one) and choose > Mailbox > Rebuild. > > If that doesn’t solve the problem, quit Mail, navigate to ~/Library/ > Mail/V2/MailData and drag the files Envelope Index, Envelope Index-shm, and > Envelope Index-wal to the Trash. > > (The tilde ~ represents your Home Library) > > When you launch Mail again, you will receive “Welcome to Mail”- it will tell > you that your existing Mail messages need to be imported into the new version > the first time you use Mail. This might take a few minutes. You won’t be able > to use Mail until the import is finished. > > Click Continue to import your messages now, or click Cancel to import later”. > (just as it may have done when you upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion or M > or Y). > > Click ‘Continue’ > > Depending on how many messages & mailboxes you have it can take awhile to > complete. > > Let it complete the importing of all mailboxes (Inboxes & Sent Mailboxes) & > messages—it’s recreating your envelope index from scratch, but don’t worry, > you won’t lose any data, such as labels or message status—and when it > finishes, your mailboxes should behave correctly. > > You might find after you have removed the Envelope Index files and Opened > Mail and Mail completed recreating your envelope index from scratch that you > will notice a lot of messages indicating they are ‘Unread’... just Select all > & Mark ‘As Read’ > > When you again navigate to ~/Library/ Mail/V2/MailData > > You might see two extra Envelope Index files with weird letters&numbers such > as: > “Envelope Index-T0x7ffc53b805b0.tmp.ka9wll-shm” & “Envelope > Index-T0x77ffc53b805b0.tmp.ka9wll-wal” > You can safely remove these two tmp files. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > >> On 31 Oct 2014, at 12:52 pm, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> This time a small issue has turned into ? I have over 40 mailboxes “on my >> Mac”. I have about 25 Rules direct where mail goes. All are regularly >> checked as sender’s emails change. >> >> Today, its random. The emails are landing everywhere but where they should >> go. And some are duplicated! >> >> Bill > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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