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Jun 21, 2015 11:25 AM in response to David Roachby MattW214,Your first, longer version finally fixed the sorting problem for my gmail IMAP account in Mail. I am running Yosemite 10.10.3. I tried the shortened version first but it did not work. Thanks David!
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Aug 13, 2015 11:55 AM in response to David Werner1by Jim Houghton,Why the everlovin' H does something as simple as putting a vertical list of email folders (and their subfolders) into A-Z order have to be so complicated? I'm not a computer whiz, and I could understand if I were asking it to do something unusual. But ALPHABETICAL ORDER???
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Aug 24, 2015 8:04 PM in response to David Werner1by swyoung1,Alright, guys, I figured out a workaround for this problem. You must first nest the target mailbox in the mailbox you want it to appear above. Once you remove it from the nest, it doesn't matter where you tell it to go, Apple Mail will automatically place it above the mailbox under which you nested it.
Apple Mail v.8.2 (2104)
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Aug 27, 2015 3:27 AM in response to David Werner1by ikemarrus,I think that whoever said that you can reorder mailboxes that are nested inside folders, but not those at the outer level, is correct. I followed advice here to nest a folder that's at the outer level into another folder and drag it back out to the outer level. What I found was, that no matter where I said to put it on the outer level, Mail alphabetized it. So if you want them alphabetized, that worked for me. Am using Yosemite 10.10.4.
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Sep 16, 2015 9:31 PM in response to al5555555555by Seanfromcanberra,I tried many of these without success. I may have done something wrong.
However, I stumbled on a simple solution. I renamed the mailbox folder by adding a 1 to the end of it (sure any character would work). It immediately placed it in alphabetic order. I then just renamed it by removing the 1. It stayed in place.
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Sep 19, 2015 2:35 AM in response to Seanfromcanberraby ORM999,Hi Team
After weeks of trying everything, backing up, dragging about and messing around. This option worked for me:
Just remember to disable the email folder, before you go into the Terminal and paste this:
cd ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-EMAILFOLDERNAMEHERE
find . -name Info.plist -exec rm {} \;
Where the EMAILFOLDERNAMEHERE is you need to replace this with the name of your email folder less the @icloud.com
Heres a guide below but worked perfect for me. Thanks Forum. Andy
https://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/nested-imap-folders-in-apple- mail
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Sep 19, 2015 3:14 AM in response to David Werner1by Lexiepex,Consider that you have TWO entries to show the accounts in Mail:
first: Mail->Preferences->Accounts tab
second: Mail-Accounts.
I am not sure which one everybody here is taking about.
You will see that the order in Mail-Preferences-accounts will reflect the order in Mail-Accounts after some time.
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Nov 14, 2015 5:45 AM in response to cckantorby carol1945,Same problem!! This is ridiculous. My folders were all in ABC order for a few months, now they are not. I need ABC order!!! I have not tried the workarounds yet, but will try them. I thought computers were supposed to save us time. I have a practically brand new macbook pro with retina display. Bought it maybe 3 months ago.
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Jan 2, 2016 11:46 PM in response to David Roachby illumined_horizons,excellent, worked like a charm. many thanks, as I've searched around the internet for at least two hours for a fix. thanks again!
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Jun 22, 2016 2:41 PM in response to Seanfromcanberraby saab93viggen,This works like a charm in El Capitan, too. Genius!
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Sep 26, 2016 6:32 AM in response to David Roachby rkcarter,I was able to do a modification of the longer version and the shortened version. This worked for me on 10.11 (where mail is V3 rather than V2):
- Quit Mail.app
- In Terminal:
- cd ~/Library/Mail/V3/IMAP-nameofyouraccounthere
- mv .mboxCache.plist .mboxCache.plist.OLD
- (NOTE: I didn't bother messing with the folders' Info.plist files)
- Open Mail.app
The account's folders were back to being properly alphabetically sorted.
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Sep 26, 2016 1:50 PM in response to rkcarterby rkcarter,Aggh, it won't let me edit my post above. I don't know if I had hit an unrelated problem -- I was rebuilding a mailbox in a different GMail account also in Mail.app -- but I was seeing the mailbox rebuild not make progress and couldn't exit mail after doing the above. So I exited, did the above and also did David Roach's find/delete of the Info.plist files, and then mail.app was working properly after all. So disregard my comment about skipping the delete of Info.plist (apparently I can't edit my prior comment after a certain length of time).