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All of the flagged emails--set-up as Rules in Preferences--are gone. The e-mails seem to still be located in the Inbox but they are no longer color-coded nor flagged. If I click on one that I know should be flagged, sometimes it gets color-coded but the Category does not appear under the Flagged tab in the sidebar.
iMac 27″, macOS 12.0
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Manually Rebuilding Spotlight via Terminal
If the aforementioned Spotlight control panel approach doesn’t spur a reindexation of the drive, you may need to initiate it manually through the command line. Open Terminal and use the following command string to do so:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:
sudo mdutil -i on /
Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Manually Rebuilding Spotlight via Terminal
If the aforementioned Spotlight control panel approach doesn’t spur a reindexation of the drive, you may need to initiate it manually through the command line. Open Terminal and use the following command string to do so:
sudo mdutil -E /
This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:
sudo mdutil -i on /
Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.
If Apple Mail is in the " User Column View " that is normal be default in Monterey and Big Sur.
Possible solution - look for header called " Subject " and Right click Subject. A Popup Sub-menu should appear and Enable Flag Columns.
What solved it was click on Mailbox in the header then Rebuild. Thank you for your help!
Thank you for your help. What fixed was clicking on Mailbox in header then Rebuild.
Good news, great work, thank for reporting the cure & take care my friend! :)
Good and easy solution.
Thanks you as well.
I had to REBUILD again just now since the flagged messages were gone again. Is this a problem with Monterey or iCloud or both??
Not sure where the problem s, I rarely boot into Monty, & the Monty update is more than my monthly data allowance. :(
Flagged E-mails Gone After Latest Upgrade
