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Mail index breaks at login after portable home sync

I have an iMac and a MBP that are synced as portable home directories. Since I upgraded to Lion, when I switch machines (after syncing, of course), Mail always indicates that the index is broken and needs to be repaired. A process that takes 15 minutes at least.

I'm a bit at a loss because the portable home sync runs without errors...

Thanks for helping out.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 6, 2011 7:45 AM

17 replies

Feb 19, 2012 3:19 PM in response to koenraadfromleuven

Hi Koenraad From Leuven,

Tried your solution, it works, but that means that my Archive mailbox is not sync'ed.

I work with an IMAP mail account, and sometimes I have to put old items in Archive (limited server space for IMAP). If I do that on computer A, the mail is removed from computer B (via IMAP sync) but it does not appear in my Archive folder. So not a full solution yet.

I did "Full path", this works too.

By the way, do you live in neighbourhood of Leuven. Me too, could be interesting to share (good and bad) experiences with Lion Server.

Dirk.

Nov 27, 2012 12:14 PM in response to koenraadfromleuven

Nice. I did come up with the same solution on my own. It feels good to find out it was the right call!

I share the drawback though. So I tried to include in the upper field, the folder To be synced, this two entries:

~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes

~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData

This doesn't seem to work, since in the lower field the whole Mail/V2 gets excluded.

I think, if no one can suggest a nice workaround the only option is to exclude only the actual mailboxes we don't want to be synced, i.e.

~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-user@server.com

Any thoughts?

Mail index breaks at login after portable home sync