Re: Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies
Does anybody have thoughts on the Time Machine vs. Mail angle? Thanks Harry, for your rebuild routine. I'm saving it in case this duplication happens again. For now, the duplicates are gone. Will the Imported mailboxes all wind up in a new Imported folder? Will they replace my existing set of a couple dozen folders or will they sit at the bottom of my existing list? If at the bottom, I'd have to somehow manually rearrange things to look like before. By the way, a couple years ago, I fumble-moused a folder or two into chaos. With Time Machine, I restored the entire Mail Folder in my UsersLibrary. Very Fast. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies
Al, What happens is that everything is put back just like it was and all of the items in a corrupted database are rebuilt. You can run this procedure over and over and at the end everything will be just like it was when you started. All Mail Box's will be the same and you won't have any folders that say Imported well unless you had Imported Mail Box's when you started. I especially use this procedure when I (for what ever reason) have mail that will not move or delete. Eccenually it is the same as selecting a mailbox and the selecting the Rebuild function. Cheers Harry (`-''-/).___ ..- -''`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ,' (((.-' fl On Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:35:58 AM UTC-7, Al Poulin wrote: Does anybody have thoughts on the Time Machine vs. Mail angle? Thanks Harry, for your rebuild routine. I'm saving it in case this duplication happens again. For now, the duplicates are gone. Will the Imported mailboxes all wind up in a new Imported folder? Will they replace my existing set of a couple dozen folders or will they sit at the bottom of my existing list? If at the bottom, I'd have to somehow manually rearrange things to look like before. By the way, a couple years ago, I fumble-moused a folder or two into chaos. With Time Machine, I restored the entire Mail Folder in my UsersLibrary. Very Fast. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies
Greetings Al, The best way to clean up the Apple Mail mailbox is to: Open ~Library/Mail then locate the file Envelope Index and drag it to your desktop. Then Open Mail, but when you open mail it will tell you that this is the first time that you have open Mail How ever that's Okay, click on the button to proceed and you will get a message that says importing mail If you have a lot of mail it could take quite a long time so be paicient. When it;s done you'll have a clean install of your saved mail. If you still have duplicates then your problem is elsewhere. Let us know after you've done the rebuild. Cheers Harry (`-''-/).___ ..- -''`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ,' (((.-' fl On Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:08:13 PM UTC-7, Al Poulin wrote: Could Time Machine be messing me up with my email? I have the last 24 iMac, Display Port, March 2009, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with Mail 4.6. On October 16 and 25, the Inbox of one of my three accounts became populated with up to six, unread copies of emails. These emails had remained in the Inbox or been moved to other folders or into the Trash after reading. Some messages were not duplicated. I use POP mail and keep the window shade at the bottom of the window. The Inbox contents usually amount to about 3/4 of one screen full. With the duplicated messages, the contents amounted to over five screens. On both occasions, I restored the offending Inbox with Time Machine. Time Machine created its own folder in Mail and provided the correct Inbox contents in a new Recovered Mailboxes folder. I dragged the contents of the bad Inbox to the Trash and then dragged the contents of the Recovered Mailboxes folder to the now empty Inbox. And all seems well. There is nothing wrong at the Gmail website. The same email account behaves properly on other devices in the house. This morning, with my back to the machines, I heard the Time Capsule working and then go silent. In an instant, I then heard a new message alert. Turning around, I found the duplicate contents in the Inbox. Mail was set to check for new messages every minute. In Console, the All Messages file shows nothing that I can suspect related to the problem. Thanks for any enlightenment. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies
Could Time Machine be messing me up with my email? I have the last 24 iMac, Display Port, March 2009, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with Mail 4.6. On October 16 and 25, the Inbox of one of my three accounts became populated with up to six, unread copies of emails. These emails had remained in the Inbox or been moved to other folders or into the Trash after reading. Some messages were not duplicated. I use POP mail and keep the window shade at the bottom of the window. The Inbox contents usually amount to about 3/4 of one screen full. With the duplicated messages, the contents amounted to over five screens. On both occasions, I restored the offending Inbox with Time Machine. Time Machine created its own folder in Mail and provided the correct Inbox contents in a new Recovered Mailboxes folder. I dragged the contents of the bad Inbox to the Trash and then dragged the contents of the Recovered Mailboxes folder to the now empty Inbox. And all seems well. There is nothing wrong at the Gmail website. The same email account behaves properly on other devices in the house. This morning, with my back to the machines, I heard the Time Capsule working and then go silent. In an instant, I then heard a new message alert. Turning around, I found the duplicate contents in the Inbox. Mail was set to check for new messages every minute. In Console, the All Messages file shows nothing that I can suspect related to the problem. Thanks for any enlightenment. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
