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Unable to move email to trash in Mail
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1715435" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Mail maintains a database that doesn't contain any of your e-mail messages, but which contains information about where those messages are located on your hard drive and what their state is. It is sometimes called the "envelope database." You need to rebuild the envelope database to get things back to normal. (Don't worry, this is easy to do, and completely safe.)</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, you didn't say which version of OS X you are running. Rebuilding the envelope database is a bit different for each version of OS X.</p><p></p><p>Under El Capitan, this is how you do it:</p><p></p><p>- Quit Mail.</p><p>- Go to your user Library folder by holding down the Option key in the Finder, and then choosing: Go menu --> Library</p><p>- In ~/Library/Mail/V3/MailData, move any file that begins with “Envelope Index” to your desktop, such as:</p><p></p><p>Envelope-Index</p><p>Envelope-Index-shm</p><p>Envelope-Index-wal</p><p></p><p>Launch Mail and new Envelope Index files will be created. This can take a long time if there are a lot of archived e-mail messages to go through.</p><p></p><p>Mail should be back to normal after this.</p><p></p><p>If you are using a different version of OS X, let me know and I'll tell you how to rebuild the envelope database for that version.</p><p></p><p>___________________________________________</p><p></p><p>Randy B. Singer • Attorney at Law </p><p>Mac OS X Routine Maintenance • <a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html" target="_blank">http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html</a></p><p>___________________________________________</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1715435, member: 190607"] Mail maintains a database that doesn't contain any of your e-mail messages, but which contains information about where those messages are located on your hard drive and what their state is. It is sometimes called the "envelope database." You need to rebuild the envelope database to get things back to normal. (Don't worry, this is easy to do, and completely safe.) Unfortunately, you didn't say which version of OS X you are running. Rebuilding the envelope database is a bit different for each version of OS X. Under El Capitan, this is how you do it: - Quit Mail. - Go to your user Library folder by holding down the Option key in the Finder, and then choosing: Go menu --> Library - In ~/Library/Mail/V3/MailData, move any file that begins with “Envelope Index” to your desktop, such as: Envelope-Index Envelope-Index-shm Envelope-Index-wal Launch Mail and new Envelope Index files will be created. This can take a long time if there are a lot of archived e-mail messages to go through. Mail should be back to normal after this. If you are using a different version of OS X, let me know and I'll tell you how to rebuild the envelope database for that version. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer • Attorney at Law Mac OS X Routine Maintenance • [url]http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html[/url] ___________________________________________ [/QUOTE]
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