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21 March 2007

Ack. Mac Mail mailbox missing! Hope me! →[More:]Okay. Deep breaths. I was trying to organize the mailboxes in Mail (10.4) and I thought that I had moved a whole mailbox, but it appears nowhere! I've checked all the enclosing folders, but not to be found. I neeeeeed those emails. It has all my freelance stuff, divided by theatre. Ack. I did a spotlight for the emails I know to be in the folder, and yes they are found, and appear to be in the designated folder. But they are not visible anywhere...So - how can I get them back/find them?

post by: typewriter at: 11:08 | 2 comments

Oh goodness. Refresh made it appear. Oh dear, off to finish my heart attack now.

posted by typewriter 21 March | 11:27

Glad it sorted itself out! Big folder moves can sometimes take a while to happen. You might already know about this, but if you hit Cmd-0 (that's a zero), you'll get an Activity Viewer window, which'll show you what Mail is in the middle of doing. I use it sometimes to reassure myself it's actually doing the move/delete/whatever I just asked it to.

Oh, and use this experience as a positive motivator to backup more often!

posted by chrismear 21 March | 12:24

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