Ah, I remember now what the issue with that old inactive mail account. One of my draft messages disappeared, one which I access on an ongoing basis to store and add notes on a particular subject. After searching my machine with Spotlight, found it in some obscure folder ... related to that same old inactive mail account.
Steven On 05/08/2011, at 1:05 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: > Hi Ronni > > Yes, the Save and Quick Look buttons are on display. This area is which > indicates a single small 14KB attachment, being the graphic, and conflicting > with the 492KB message size in the Message Viewer. Scrolling down either when > still in the Message Viewer (preview pane), or opening the message and > scrolling down, makes no difference. No attachment visible. Other messages do > show the attachments. > > Quick Look displays the small attachment (the graphic in the sender's sig > file), however no left or right arrows in the Quick Look window to move to > next attachment. It's as if the larger attachment's not there, but the size > column displayed in the Message Viewer tells a different story. > > I've found the attachment though!! By doing so, seems something even more > weird happening. This is what I did ... > > Opened the message. > View > Message > Raw Source > Knowing that the missing attachment was likely to be a pdf file, Command+F > and searched pdf > This identified a file name within this raw source text likely to be the name > of the attachment (in this case img-803140111-0001.pdf) > Via spotlight searched this file name, and up came a match, being the missing > attachment. > Here's the weird part ... looking at where this file had been parked, it > seems to be parked within a hierarchy of files and associated with a > completely different mail account, in fact an old one which is no longer > active, and probably not active for a couple of years. > > This is where the attached file was nested .... > > Users > my home folder > Library (greyed, presumably an invisible folder) > > Mail > V2 > POP-old mail account user name@old dom...@mail.old domain > > INBOX.mbox > great long code resembling a MAC address > Data > 1 > 2 > 6 > > Attachments > 621945 > 2 > img-803140111-0001.pdf > > Perhaps with such a convoluted nest of folders it's no wonder attachments are > losing their way. But seriously, does that give anybody a clue as to what's > going on? What worries me mostly is that old mail account came up just a > couple of days ago for some reason, something associated with it for no good > reason, and I just can't remember what it was now. Do others have this same > folder hierarchy? > > If I navigate to the V2 folder (mentioned in hierarchy above), a whole bunch > of folders are listed, each clearly associated with a separate mail account. > Does anybody know whether this V2 folder should contain only active > mailboxes? If I look inside the bowels of the folder associated with the > inactive account in question (where my missing attachment ended up), > worryingly it's got plenty of recent action happening, as in files modified > today, yesterday, etc. Surely this shouldn't be happening inside the folder > of a no longer used mail account?? > > I can't just delete the old account folder because it probably contains lots > of historical messages I'd like to retain. > > Looking messy and a bit dangerous!! > > Cheers, Steven > > > > On 04/08/2011, at 11:04 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Steven, >> >> You have to scroll down to the bottom of a threaded email on the right >> window to even see them. No attachments show on the top of emails any longer >> (by the paperclip) >> >> Or do you mean the buttons that said quicklook and save? There are hidden by >> default, but can be seen if you click on the blue word 'details' on the top >> right of the message. Once selected, this view remains for all other >> messages. >> >> You should still be able to quicklook attachments from the message by >> selecting them and pressing the spacebar. If this doesn't work for you, then >> maybe there is another problem. >> The quicklook window is now a pale colour by the way. >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 04/08/2011, at 8:14 PM, Steven Knowles <emai...@knowles.net.au> wrote: >> >>> >>> A query regarding Mail 5 (Lion). >>> >>> I've received a message with, supposedly, an attached file which I need. >>> >>> In the Message Viewer, the size column shows 492KB, indicating an >>> attachment, and the Attachments column shows 2 items, indicating the >>> attachment in question, the 2nd obviously being a sig file graphic embedded >>> in the message. >>> >>> However, viewing the message itself, the 'Save' button shows only one >>> attachment, the graphic, 14KB. There's no file at the base of the message, >>> where you'd usually see an attachment. >>> >>> I've brought up the forward and redirect windows, to see if that makes my >>> missing attachment materialise. Nope. Even forwarded the whole message to a >>> hotmail account to see if the attachment appeared in hotmail. No to that as >>> well. >>> >>> The attachment's gotta be buried in the received email somewhere, otherwise >>> I wouldn't expect Message Viewer to indicate 492KB and two attachments. The >>> embedded graphic is small, definitely not 492KB, and this is about the size >>> I'd expect the vaporised attachment to be. >>> >>> I've quit Mail and relaunched. Rebuilt the mailbox. No joy. >>> >>> Any clues as to how I might weed out this elusive attachment? >>> >>> Another thing ... quitting Mail and relaunching no longer remembers all >>> open Mail windows. >>> >>> Previously reported searching issues still an issue despite following all >>> suggested fixing attempts. >>> >>> >>> Lion's Mail is one buggy app!! >>> >>> >>> Steven > -- 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>
