I just upgraded to Big Sur. When I move a message to trash by clicking the icon, it is absolutely gone. In Catalina, I was always able to view the trash before permanently deleting it and I could move it back to the inbox or any other folder I have if I mistakenly placed it in trash. Am I missing something or is moving the message to trash actually deleting it? Thanks!
iMac 27″, macOS 11.0
I contacted Apple support, they had me go into mailbox behaviors and move everything to the imap servers instead on my my mac. When it is on on "My Mac" mail creates a seperate folder for trash and junk for each mailbox. Once I moved everything in "mailbox behaviors" my "All Trash", All Junk" etc all returned to favorites automatically.
I contacted Apple support, they had me go into mailbox behaviors and move everything to the imap servers instead on my my mac. When it is on on "My Mac" mail creates a seperate folder for trash and junk for each mailbox. Once I moved everything in "mailbox behaviors" my "All Trash", All Junk" etc all returned to favorites automatically.
IF you have multiple email accounts/inboxes, try this.
I followed all the instructions, including going "full screen" and it didn't help.
I have two different mail accounts, and with that, two inboxes.
What worked was hitting the left-down arrow next to All inboxes in favorites, so everything nested/was hidden in my favorites.
THEN, I did the hover+ and "all trash" appeared.
Hi,
Big Sur deletes mail messages without going to the Trash bin. I just found out a way to get the deleted message(s) to the Trash Bin as follows :
Hope it works for you. Cheers and Happy New Year 2021.
I have two different mail accounts, and with that, two inboxes.
What worked was hitting the left-down arrow next to All inboxes in favorites, so everything nested/was previously hidden in my favorites is now visible.
THEN, I did the hover+ and "all trash" appeared.
I couldn't either, until Mail hung up and I force quit. After reopening Mail, hovering over Favorites brought up the plus sign. I then was able to add "All Trash," which is where all my trashed emails became visible. Simply going to the trash mailbox and designating it as a favorite didn't work. So, the trick is to get that plus sign to appear.
Thanks Andrew - hovered over 'Favourites" and got all my Trash back. Will do some clean-up but at least I get to make the decision....not Apple! Thanks also to ivan54.
See my response to Sweet Lady
When you click on the + sign, a pop up should appear asking to select/add a mailbox..
choose which mailbox you want to add and click OK
It should then appear in you sidebar
I re-called Apple (3rd time) and reported the results of this thread-stressing that the solution only works in non-full screen mode. They are reporting it up the chain as a bug report. Hopefully it will be resolved in the first .01 update.
The Logic of the Thrash Bin on my Mac !
To each its own BIN !
On my Mac, in the left column, there are :
FAVOURITE
Inbox
VIPs
Sent
Drafts
Flagged
(Name of my Company)
NAME OF MY COMPANY
Inbox
Drafts
Sent
Junk
Bin ( *************** No. 1)
ON MY MAC
Bin (****************No 2.)
Archive
Customer 1 rec
Customer 1 sent
Customer 2 rec
Customer 2 sent
etc. etc.
TODAY
SMART MAILBOXES.
So,
2. Whatever messages I delete from under ON MY MAC go to Bin No. 2
To each its own BIN !
Hope it works for you. In certain configuration of your own, you may have more Bins. Please pay attention.
Andrew gave the solution. When you hover over favorites, on same line you will see the + sign and the down arrow. Click the + sign and when the screen opens to what Andrew provided, place cursor in the type space and then select the items you want. Problem solved.
I followed Andrews advice - there is a + sign in the side bar. Click it, then when you place your cursor in the box 'mailbox to add', you will be given choices. Select the mailboxes you want.
In the side bar, float the pointer/arrow over the word favourites at the top, above 'All Inboxes". you will see a + sign. Click and then it will prompt you to add a folder to favourites. Add the All Junk and All Bin, if you have multiple accounts.
I agree with decry - quite surprised when I went to retrieve an email from trash and it's all gone! What's with that???? Not happy. Any chance of recovery? I did have trouble installing Big Sur - but persevered and got it installed...but took HOURS.
That is the same problem I am having. I can see the Trash bin, but nothing goes into it. When I delete an email is simply disappears.
Even if I drag a message into the trash bin, it will show up there for the time being but if I then exit the Mail App and come back later the message is gone.
I set the setting on Preferences to never automatically delete mail from the trash bin, but it still automatically deletes the mail every time that I exit the Mail App.
You wrote:
dcrb wrote:
Andrew gave the solution. When you hover over favorites, on same line you will see the + sign and the down arrow. Click the + sign and when the screen opens to what Andrew provided, place cursor in the type space and then select the items you want. Problem solved.
No, that just makes the trash bin visible. I never had a problem seeing the trash bin. I could see it quite clearly. The problem is that when I delete items, they do not go to the trash bin, they just disappear - so that is not a solution.
Big Sur Mail Trash
