At 10:14 PM -0400 8/3/2009, Stanton Mitrany wrote: >the Dock's Mail icon bouncing attracted my attention. I clicked on >it and was informed that (or something like this) "directory is >broken. To fix it, you need to quit Mail."
Hate it when that happens. >I obeyed, and then re-launched Mail. I was confronted with what >appeared to be an Apple set-up application, which asked me to begin >what looked to be a multi-step process to locate, if I remember >correctly, something like my Mail database. Quit Mail. Launch Disk Utility, and run a Verify Disk pass on your HD - makes sure everything is ok from the file system's point of view. If it finds any errors, repair them. Backup "~/Library/Mail" -- just in case. Move "~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index" to your desktop. Launch Mail and let it re-index things. That "Envelope Index" is a sqlite database that gets corrupted easily. >Fortunately, I had done a backup with Time Machine only this morning. Good. >But this is scary. I've never before in 22 years as a Macintosh user >encountered anything like this. Murphy was gunning for you. >Could this issue be caused by a fairly large number of items in my >Inbox (about 36,000?) Usually I pare it down dramatically when it >gets up to about 40,000. Since having so many Inbox items hasn't >caused problems in the past, I don't know whether this might be >related to the issue I'm experiencing now or not. Personally, I would never let any inbox grow to over a few hundred messages. Organize things - Mail supports folders with multiple mailboxes. HTH. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
