Re: Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies

2012-10-27 Thread Al Poulin
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

Re: Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies

2012-10-27 Thread gifutiger
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

Re: Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies

2012-10-26 Thread gifutiger
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

Mail Inbox Balloons with Multiple Copies

2012-10-25 Thread Al Poulin
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