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Mail 5 (OSX Lion) does not work after mailbox migration

Mail is not working in Lion.

After the mail data migration finishes the message window does not appear.

I've tried deleting the data files from Library/Mail, copying my backup data and restarting the data migration. Also tried disabling all bundles and deleting the Evnvelope* files in /MailData.

Anyone suffering from the same? Any ideas? Thanks

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I get the following exception in the console

21/07/2011 11:31:00.816 Mail: *** -[NSSet initWithArray:range:copyItems:]: array argument is not an NSArray

21/07/2011 11:31:00.817 Mail: (

0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8eb48986 __exceptionPreprocess + 198

1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff937d9d5e objc_exception_throw + 43

2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8eb22f94 -[NSSet initWithArray:range:copyItems:] + 196

3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8eb22ec9 -[NSSet initWithArray:] + 57

4 Message 0x00007fff929f0991 -[SmartMailboxUnreadCountManager smartMailbox:didInitializeWithDictionaryRepresentation:] + 98

5 Message 0x00007fff929f0145 -[MailboxUid initWithDictionaryRepresentation:] + 1152

6 Message 0x00007fff929effdb -[MailboxUid initWithDictionaryRepresentation:] + 790

7 Mail 0x0000000100ffd765 Mail + 34661

8 Mail 0x0000000100ffcd90 Mail + 32144

9 Mail 0x0000000100ffc9f6 Mail + 31222

10 Mail 0x000000010107b514 Mail + 550164

11 Mail 0x0000000101090f24 Mail + 638756

12 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8eb3a90c __invoking___ + 140

13 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8eb3a7a4 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 132

14 Message 0x00007fff929ee047 -[MonitoredInvocation invoke] + 196

15 Message 0x00007fff929ca891 -[ThrowingInvocationOperation main] + 33

16 Message 0x00007fff929ca837 -[_MFInvocationOperation main] + 449

17 Foundation 0x00007fff8a0400b0 -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 705

18 Foundation 0x00007fff8a0533d2 ____NSOQSchedule_block_invoke_2 + 124

19 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8745590a _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 18

20 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff874567e9 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 255

21 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8c9153da _pthread_wqthread + 316

22 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8c916b85 start_wqthread + 13

)

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 3:34 AM

21 replies

dy1112

Level 1

0 points

Feb 22, 2013 7:36 AM in response to drgna

drgna wrote:

Sorry, but to sound stupid...what do you mean by "dragging them to the parent folder (Mail)? How do you do that?

The parent folder is the folder at a higher level. In this example screenshot, SmartGit 2.0.7 is parent while changelog.txt, license.html and licenses are children.

e2photo

Level 2

176 points

Mar 17, 2013 5:55 AM in response to dy1112

Just upgraded to 10.8.3 and add the problem described above. Did the trick of moving V2 content to the 'Mail' folder. That go Mail to open and download content on the servers, but I can not import my old mail.

When I go to 'Import Mailboxes' and select anything, it says there is an error will not proceed.

Suggestions?

e2photo

Level 2

176 points

Mar 17, 2013 6:04 AM in response to e2photo

Let me try that again....

Did the trick of moving V2 content to the 'Mail' folder. Opened Mail and it did download mail content on the servers, but did not import the old mail from my mailbox on the computer.

When I go to 'Import Mailboxes' and select anything, it says there is an error will not proceed.

Suggestions?

Apr 12, 2013 6:44 PM in response to macmrjohn

Similar issue: I migrated my user account to a MacBook Air (OS X 10.8) using Migration Asssitant from a Time Machine disk.

—Mail indexed my old messages, but no Message Viewer window appears

—Typing Cmd-0 causes Mail to quit

I then moved ~/Library/Mail folder to the desktop, and relaunched Mail, creating a new account and intending to use Import Mailboxes to access my old emails. After checking for messages and downloading new emails, Mail now exhibits the same behavior: cmd-0 crashes it. I also tried moing the contents of the V2 folder up one level as suggested but Mail just created a new V2 folder.

pavvad

Level 1

1 points

Oct 25, 2013 9:15 AM in response to Alejandro M. Ramallo

I had a similar issue when upgrading to Mt. Lion and now to Mavericks.

I have 3 email accounts (Exchange, iCloud, IMAP), but the problem only happened with the Exchange account.

When upgrading the mail database, all mailbox folders with special characters (punctuation or other characters) were duplicated i.e., the mailbox was imported with a "-2" added to its name.

Therefore, the Index could not find those messages in Mail, although they could be located in Finder (Mail, V2) under the respective account and mbox folder.

It only happened with mailboxes with punctuation. Inbox, Trash etc was fine, but mailboxes like "José.mbox" became "José-2.mbox" (only in Finder, not in Mail). changing the name back didn't do any good.

Tried all the solutions described here but everytime Mail duplicated such mbox. Any suggestions?

I know I can erase the account and dl everything from Exhange back againg, but its 20GB of messages!

Thanks!

Mar 4, 2014 8:33 AM in response to AryehG

This worked!! Thanks!

Meaning ...

I opened mail from the applications folder and everything loaded and upgraded. I was getting stuck on the migrating data step . Worth a try if thats where yours is getting stuck. Easy.

Mail 5 (OSX Lion) does not work after mailbox migration