Hi Daniel (& Ronni) I have run the procedure more than once. Each time, at item 6, I get back all the mailboxes except Inbox and Sent. I note that ~Library/Mail/Mailboxes contains all but these two. I hope that with all the to-ing and fro-ing I've done I haven't lost them.
Re Ronni's Number 2 suggestion, opening Mail and choosing Mailbox>Rebuild currently produces no action. Re Number 3, by now ~Library/Mail includes Envelope Indexes 1, 2 and 3. If I chuck them all out, is reimporting a simple matter for me? Re Number 4, "No", but it wasn't discussed. Re inherited problems, you must have good records, Ronni. For me , Panther days is another life. Thanks everybody for their efforts so far. Ian On 26/3/09 10:54 PM, "Daniel Kerr" <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > Hi Peter > > Did you try my suggestion I posted the other day, as I've had the same thing > happen, and the fix I posted has always worked for me, ...the same as what > you've listed happening. > > ---quote > This was the fix I used for this. See how it goes. > > 1. Go to Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library. Move the "Mail" folder to your > desktop. > 2. Launch Mail. > 3. Mail will ask if you want to import your message. Don't Click continue > yet!! > 4. Go back to Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library. You will see a new "Mail" > folder there. Rename that Mail2. > 5. Drag your old "Mail" folder from the Desktop back to this original > location ( Macintosh HD/Users/yourname/Library) > 6. Go to back to Mail and now Click Continue. Everything should be there > like normal. > You should now be able to open and use Mail like you used to. You can also > then go back and move Mail2 (the one we didn't use from above) to the trash. > ---end quote--- > > Posted that to the list Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:30:19 +0900. > Worth a try. :o) > > Kind Regards > Daniel > > > On 26/3/09 10:42 PM, "Peter Hinchliffe" <hinch...@multiline.com.au> wrote: > >> >> On 25/03/2009, at 11:05 PM, Robert Howells wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Ian >>> >>> Can you go to your desktop , find the copy of Mail you would have >>> put there >>> when I asked you previously >>> >>> highlight it and then do an Apple plus I >>> this should give you an information window which will show >>> what size the folder is . >>> >>> Hopefully , plenty of Megabytes -- then tell us what size it is , >>> please >>> >> >> >> I can now contribute usefully to this discussion - well perhaps not >> usefully, but I can at least explain exactly what Ian is going through. >> >> I visited Ian's place today at his request and saw for myself just >> what is happening. It is truly bizarre: >> >> 1. Mail does launch, but Message Viewer does not automatically open. >> >> 2. Message View can be called up from the Window Menu, but no messages >> are displayed. There is a full contingent of custom mailboxes listed >> in the sidebar, complete with unread message counts. When the >> mailboxes are selected, no messages are seen. A look inside ~/Library/ >> Mail/ shows that all the mailboxes are intact and all the mbox files >> and messages are there. >> >> 3. Mail does not respond to the Quit command. Force Quit is the only >> way out, and of course the new account details that Ian painstakingly >> enters each time are lost because the preferences are not updated. >> >> 4. I deleted com.apple.mail.plist. This simple act alone should be >> enough to cause Mail to call for a new account to be set up. Not at >> all in this case. Mail simply launches the same way: no Message >> Viewer, no messages, and an old iPrimus account listed in the Accounts >> preferences. >> >> 5. Deleting com.apple.mail.plist, all Mail cache files and any other >> Mail-related file I can find makes no difference. Mail continues to >> behave in exactly the same way. Of course, a new version of >> com.apple.mail.plist is automatically created, but is clearly being >> ignored by Mail, which continues to show the settings for this old >> iPrimus account. It must be reading this stuff from somewhere, but >> just where it a total mystery. >> >> 6. Perhaps something has gone wrong with Mail itself (maybe something >> weird has crept into the Mail package), so lets try reverting to last >> week's copy, which was the one running before this stuff started >> happening. We went back to last Thursday and restored Mail.app via >> Time Machine. No difference. >> >> Short of performing a complete System Restore, I can't see how to >> resolve this. A Clean Install with Archive is likely to be >> unsuccessful, since it is apparent that the problem is local to Ian's >> user account. I have searched for hidden files containing the word >> "mail" in the filename. I admit I'm out of ideas. Perhaps some of what >> I have outlined above might ring a bell with someone on the list. At >> the moment I have Ian running his old Entourage X software, so at >> least he can handle email in a comfortable way again, but it's not >> really addressing the central problem. For the moment I think it's >> worth waiting for 10.5.7 in the hope that an updated Mail program >> might resolve things. If not, It will be time for that backup and full >> system restore, I'm thinking. >> >> Very strange indeed. >> >> All contributions gratefully accepted. >> >> -- >> >> Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
