Hi, Ronni, I have the setting for Permanently erase deleted messages as 'never', because I do sometimes have to go back to something there. I rely on the procedure of flushing some of the oldest every month. Is this likely to be the problem? Tomorrow, I will try setting it to 'one month' and see if it helps.
When you say > Select the mailbox. Select "rebuild" from the Mailbox menu. you are referring to selecting the mailbox on the Mail preferences panel? The Rebuild option is greyed out. I have 2 other accounts, and they are both greyed out too. Thanks, Pat On 30/03/2010, at 2:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Pat, > > In Mail > Preferences > Accounts 'Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox' > - 'Permanently erase deleted messages when': > what do you have in Permanently erase deleted messages when … ? > > Firstly, try this: > Select the mailbox. > Select "rebuild" from the Mailbox menu. > > Does that help? > > Certainly don't even think about upgrading to OS X 10.6.3 UNTIL you have this > issue sorted. > As I have said numerous times on WAMUG List "Do Not Upgrade if anything is > amiss with your system". > > As is the case with all updates, if there's anything at all amiss with your > system before the update, the update is likely to expose them. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 30/03/2010, at 2:37 PM, Pat wrote: > >> >> Just noticed a further bit of weirdness with the scrambled e-mails: the >> dates on them once they are in Trash on my Mac are more than a year out of >> date, and the topics are also in the distant past. I have always made a >> point of emptying Trash on my Mac periodically, when it built up to several >> thousand. Are those long-gone e-mails still hanging around somewhere in the >> bowels of my Mac? Ugh. >> >> I hope someone has some idea about a fix. >> Pat >> >> On 30/03/2010, at 2:09 PM, Pat wrote: >> >>> >>> Starting yesterday, Mail is refusing to delete e-mails that I try to >>> discard as I read through my many e-mails from several different lists. >>> The message that appears says: The message "(Sender name, subject line)" >>> could not be moved to the mailbox "Trash - On My Mac" The operation >>> couldn't be completed. File exists >>> >>> And then there is a questionmark button and and OK button. (The >>> questionmark button doesn't seem to do anything useful.) >>> >>> I can delete an e-mail by clicking Option-delete, but it is clumsy. >>> >>> It is an intermittent problem - a few e-mails will delete as they should, >>> then the message turns up again. >>> >>> Something that seems very weird is that when I look at the e-mails in the >>> Trash on my Mac, some of them seem to have been scrambled - that is, the >>> Sender and the Subject line in the Mail application window are different >>> than what appears in the e-mail itself. Names and subjects from one source >>> get mixed with names and subjects from another e-mail list. >>> >>> I'm using OS 10.6.2; I ran repair permissions which didn't improve this >>> problem. Also deleted everything that was in Trash on my Mac, several >>> times. >>> >>> I'm wondering if I should try to get this problem sorted out before doing a >>> backup and installing the 10.6.3 update, or if the update might fix it. >>> >>> Is there anything I could do? >>> >>> Pat >> > > > > -- 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>
