Sounds like an interesting idea. When I get off work for the day, I will have to give this a try. I am also quite familiar with shell commands so this is plenty clear to me. Long live tab completion too.:)
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:29:47AM -0600, Tim Kilburn wrote: > 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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