Recovery from Rebuild?

Here's a fun glitch. I wanted to get information on the Rebuild function in Mail, so I selected the Help Menu and typed "rebuild". Up came "Menu Item: Rebuild" and when I clicked on that....it rebuilt my inbox, thus wiping out about 90 days worth of emails. Great. Not exactly the kind of "help" I was looking for.

Anybody know if that mail is at all recoverable? And I'll save you time--it ain't on the server.

Dual 2GHz G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 18, 2010 5:38 AM

21 replies

Nov 15, 2010 12:48 PM in response to seb33

Rebuild does not synchronize with the server, but earlier you said you had tried to sync accounts? That does not sync messages, but only the account settings. If that resulted in setting up a new account, then the existing one might be lost. In the finder, in the Mail folder, did you find more than one POP account folder that appears to relate to Yahoo?

Ernie

Level 1

19 points

Jan 1, 2011 7:04 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

Hi, quick Q. I rebuilt all folders as a maintenance function after a hard crash. After the rebuild, I lost 6+ GB of disk space and it seems that many attachments are duped. (I was looking to see what took up the space)
Any ideas? I need the disk space.
Thanks.

Message was edited by: TV

Jan 30, 2011 11:19 PM in response to seb33

Hey seb33

The EXACT same thing has just happened to me. Did you manage to find a fix?

I agree that the 'rebuild' function is misleading and, if I can't find these lost emails, it's caused me a whole lot of problems.

I won't hod my breath, but please
1)see this message
2)reply with good news!

Cheers

Chris

Oct 20, 2014 11:42 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

I have the same problem. I rebuilt the mailbox and lost everything.

Found the INBOX.mbox file in my library but it's only 7.1 MB. I used to have over 5.000 messages in my Mail.

OS X Yosemite

10.10

Mail

Version 8.0 (1990.1)

No backups.

Is there anything I can do?

Thank you in advance.

thomas_r.

Level 7

32,031 points

Oct 20, 2014 1:31 PM in response to nikitaszaf

This topic is very old, inactive for almost 4 years. It's also in the forum for Mac OS X 10.6, and you're using 10.10. You're not likely to find help here. Go to the Yosemite forum and ask your question there:

OS X Yosemite

I'll warn you, though, that you're not likely to find much help. Your mailbox was probably corrupt, and without backups, there may not be a way to recover. However, a Mail guru may be able to come up with a solution I can't.

Oct 20, 2014 1:43 PM in response to thomas_r.

Thomas thank you very much. I followed your instructions.

Revover emails after rebuild mailbox

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