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Problems with Apple’s Mail App, Messages ReAppear & seem to be self replicating
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<blockquote data-quote="Greg_ghp" data-source="post: 1721003" data-attributes="member: 368077"><p>Problems with Apple’s Mail App, Messages ReAppear with Blue Dot Denoting that they are UnRead & seem to be self replicating in my "Mail" Folder. I hope I am putting this in the correct Forum, sorry if I am in the wrong place. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p></p><p>27" iMac Running OS X 10.9.5 using Mail Version 7.3, email account type POP.</p><p></p><p>I did a search for similar Mail problems and the only reference I found to my problem was in “switcher-hangout”</p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/320714-confused-mail.html?highlight=email+problems" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/320714-confused-mail.html?highlight=email+problems</a></p><p></p><p>This member was having problems with Apple’s Mail App and he asked about a similar problem to mine, with the messages having been read and maybe even Deleted, reappearing with the Blue Dot Denoting that they are UnRead. My problem is compounded by the Appearance of Gigabytes of data/messages being generated in the “Mail” folder.</p><p></p><p>I had this problem before and to resolve the issue I just deleted the email accounts. At the time the problem didn’t effect my other email accounts. This time the issue is effecting my main mail account. I don’t remember what precipitated the first time but this time I had trouble getting an external drive to mount and my iMac hung up on restart with a gray screen so I did a hard shut down, waited a bit and then pushed the power button to start my iMac. All programs had been quit before the initial attempt to restart. The external drive did show up after the restart and I proceeded to copy files to it and everything seemed normal. But the next morning I noticed I had an extra 20 GB’s of data on my hard drive and in checking my Mail folder and noticed the increase in size of the accounts main folder.</p><p></p><p>I have had this and other POP email accounts for years and never had any similar issues with any of them until it happened to the accounts I deleted and now my main account.</p><p></p><p>Today I was shifting messages for back ups and noticed that things were taking a long time. I opened the Activity Window in Mail, one group of only 35 emails had 5800 messages and took 11.77 GB of disk space. </p><p></p><p>I noticed a notice in the Activity Window about “Indexing” 250, 300, couple times over 500. I didn’t think of it until later so I don’t have exact number and these later groups seem to have less repeated messages.</p><p></p><p>54 emails had 7966 messages and took 8.41 GB’s of disk space</p><p></p><p>54 emails had 883 messages and took 2.47 GB’s of disk space</p><p></p><p>I am thinking that since I have backed up all of these emails/messages, whatever they are, that I could go into my “Mail” folder and Delete en mass… </p><p></p><p>This problem shows up while I am trying to get my iMac down to less than 1 TB of used space so I can clone my hard drive and then up grade to OS X El Capitan</p><p></p><p></p><p>Greg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg_ghp, post: 1721003, member: 368077"] Problems with Apple’s Mail App, Messages ReAppear with Blue Dot Denoting that they are UnRead & seem to be self replicating in my "Mail" Folder. I hope I am putting this in the correct Forum, sorry if I am in the wrong place. :o 27" iMac Running OS X 10.9.5 using Mail Version 7.3, email account type POP. I did a search for similar Mail problems and the only reference I found to my problem was in “switcher-hangout” [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/320714-confused-mail.html?highlight=email+problems[/url] This member was having problems with Apple’s Mail App and he asked about a similar problem to mine, with the messages having been read and maybe even Deleted, reappearing with the Blue Dot Denoting that they are UnRead. My problem is compounded by the Appearance of Gigabytes of data/messages being generated in the “Mail” folder. I had this problem before and to resolve the issue I just deleted the email accounts. At the time the problem didn’t effect my other email accounts. This time the issue is effecting my main mail account. I don’t remember what precipitated the first time but this time I had trouble getting an external drive to mount and my iMac hung up on restart with a gray screen so I did a hard shut down, waited a bit and then pushed the power button to start my iMac. All programs had been quit before the initial attempt to restart. The external drive did show up after the restart and I proceeded to copy files to it and everything seemed normal. But the next morning I noticed I had an extra 20 GB’s of data on my hard drive and in checking my Mail folder and noticed the increase in size of the accounts main folder. I have had this and other POP email accounts for years and never had any similar issues with any of them until it happened to the accounts I deleted and now my main account. Today I was shifting messages for back ups and noticed that things were taking a long time. I opened the Activity Window in Mail, one group of only 35 emails had 5800 messages and took 11.77 GB of disk space. I noticed a notice in the Activity Window about “Indexing” 250, 300, couple times over 500. I didn’t think of it until later so I don’t have exact number and these later groups seem to have less repeated messages. 54 emails had 7966 messages and took 8.41 GB’s of disk space 54 emails had 883 messages and took 2.47 GB’s of disk space I am thinking that since I have backed up all of these emails/messages, whatever they are, that I could go into my “Mail” folder and Delete en mass… This problem shows up while I am trying to get my iMac down to less than 1 TB of used space so I can clone my hard drive and then up grade to OS X El Capitan Greg [/QUOTE]
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