hi, One more option that's a little more invasive but should do the trick.
1. Quit Mail. 2. Go into ~/Library/Mail/v2/Your_Mail_Account Normally, you would go to the Finder then press cmd-shift-h then open the Library file if it is visible. If your ~/Library folder is hidden, then, when in the Finder, press VO-m to go up to the menubar, over to the Go menu and, using VO-down, navigate to the Library item then press return. You'll now be in this usually hidden folder. 3. Open the Mail folder. 4. Open the v2 folder. 5. Locate the Mailbox folder that has the incorrectly sorted folders. 6. Press cmd-c to Copy it. 7. Go into the Terminal app. 8. Enter the following commands (exclude the dollar sign) $cd pathname - where the pathname is entered by pressing cmd-v. That is, you're pasting the path you copied in #6. Press return. $mv .mboxCache.plist .mboxCache.plist.bak - Note that there are spaces between items, a "dot" before the filenames, and that the first "c" of "Cache" is in caps. What you're doing here is renaming the first filename to the second filename. Because this file has the "dot" in front of the filename, it is normally an invisible file and should remain this way. 9. Quit Terminal app. 10. Open Mail and it should rebuild the .mboxCache.plist file for you and consequently fix the problem. You'll need to do this for each Mail account that has this issue. Note the word "should". This is my favourite word in computer-land as it covers my behind in case things don't work as I planned. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 29, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nope, I tried these steps several times, in fact, but I still see the folders > in reverse alpha order. I guess I'm stuck with a backwards alphabetically > ordered list of mail box folders. Nice try and thanks for the suggestion. > It's strange though; I never had this sorting problem before I upgraded to > Mavericks. I'm not in the mood to blow away all mail settings and do them > over. Take too much time so I guess I'll put up with this order unless I come > across another solution. I could manually sort them by moving folders around > but that sounds tedious too. > > Thanks for the helpful reply. > > Oh Robert, thanks for your tip but I was referring to mail box folders and > not messages. My message lists are fine and sort they way I want. > > On Apr 27, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> Here's a trick to get the Mailboxes sorted properly: >> >> 1. Go into your Mail Preferences either with cmd-comma or under the Mail >> menu. >> 2. Select Accounts from the Toolbar. >> 3. Select the account you wish to have the Mailboxes re-ordered in. >> 4. From within the Accounts Info tab, uncheck the "Enable this Account" >> checkbox. >> >> Don't worry, this won't actually lose any of your info, it just temporarily >> disables it. >> >> 5. Close your Mail Prefs and Quit the Mail app. >> 6. Wait a short bit then re-open your Mail app. >> 7. Go back into Mail Prefs and enable this account. >> 8. Close your Mail Prefs and everything should be sorted properly again. >> >> Sometimes, if it is a Gmail account, you may need to Quit the Mail app and >> re-open it again so that the sync works properly. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Apr 27, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Steve Holmes <steve.holme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I noticed after upgrading to Mavericks a couple weeks ago that all my mail >>> box folders are sorted in reverse alphabetical order under each IMAP >>> account. This always used to be in ascending alpha order and not backwards >>> like it is now. Has anyone else experienced this? Also, is there a way to >>> tell mail.app to sort these properly? 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