Suddenly Apple Mail stopped displaying the red dot or circle with the number of new messages.
I was made believe I had no new emails, but in fact I had.
How can I fix this?
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.13
Problem solved:
I found that in System Preferences-notifications "app badge icon" was for some reason not ticked.
I basically tried all the ticks there, and when I had "app bade icon" the red circle was back.
Well, it was great to learn how to reindex spotlight and remember how to do a safe boot. Thanks BDAqua for your tips in that respect!
Problem solved:
I found that in System Preferences-notifications "app badge icon" was for some reason not ticked.
I basically tried all the ticks there, and when I had "app bade icon" the red circle was back.
Well, it was great to learn how to reindex spotlight and remember how to do a safe boot. Thanks BDAqua for your tips in that respect!
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
If still a problem...
How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac
If searching your Mac doesn’t return expected results, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help.
1. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
2. Click the Privacy tab.
3. Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the Add (+) button and select the folder or disk to add. To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.”
4. From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the Remove (–) button to remove it from the list.
5. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.
Quit and restart Mail, and see if that works better.
Next try a reboot.
Then try rebuilding the mailboxes, using Mail > Mailbox > Rebuild.
Hmmmm, in Sys Prefs>Notifications>Mail, if you set it to Alerts & check all options, does that work when you get new Mail?
Safe mode didn't work.
I added the whole hard disc to the privacy tab and removed it again and now it is indexing.
Thanks, restarting Mail was the first thing I tried.
Will try reboot!
OK, let us know please.
I just rebuilt the spotlight index, but the problem persists.
Still no red circle on the mail icon when I get a new message.
Ah, good work, great to hear. :)
Apple Mail not displaying red circle for new messages
