recovered messages replicating same email over and over

Quit Mail. Go in to the ~/library/mail/V2 folder and trash the IMAP folder associated with the account you sent that email from.

I had this problem for a week. The answers I got here didn't work. For anyone else looking, here is the solution that finally worked. My son found it via a Goolge search:

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chessop

Please follow below steps.

1.Take your gmail account offline from Mail and delete the recovered messages folder.

2. Download the widget to show the hidden files fromhttp://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html

3. Go to UserName/Library/Mail/IMAP-<username>@domain.tld@imap.domain.tld/.OfflineCache

4. Delete all the data under .OfflineCache folder - DO NOT DELETE the folder.

5. Close Mail application and reopen.

This should do the job.

Best regards,

Aadi

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Thank you so much - I was having a "recovered messages" issue with a large sent item on my gmail account -- and this fixed the problem!

MacGunt

Thank you so much! I took my mail account off line and deleted the recovered message folder. I then opened up omnisweeper and found the IMAP file you referred to. I deleted that and I now have mail showing up in my inbox again and the offending message and folder have not reappeared. So cool. Life saver.

I seem to have this same problem eating up all of my hard drive space, but I can't find the recovered messages folder at all. In fact, under users in my finder, I don't even have a library folder. I have a Library folder under my hard drive, but no mail folder there. Any help is appreciated. This is driving me crazy.

N2S

Download freeware omnisweeper, be sure to take mail offline first and then delete the recovered message and folder while it is offline. Use omnisweekper to check your hard drive. In the left had column all the key files will open up, rank ordered by size. You have a library file there with your name or the name you have used for your profile - keep opening up the folders (colums move from left to right as you drill down into your personal file) in the library file with your name on it until you locate the file with the IMAP you need to delete. Once you locate the offending file (you can click on it and it will open up so you can prove to yourself you have the dumb file), delete in omnisweeper versus move to trash. I tried trash first but it was taking too long and storage is tied up until the deletes are done. I had been deleteing the recovered msg folder for weeks so I had a lot of different files to delete = released 150 gb.

btw... the fix was good. I had been wrestling with the issue for a month and in a few minutes it was done. Good luck! 😎

Gail.

That was awesome. Thank you so much. Freed up 416 GB. You have no idea how much hair I've pulled out over this!

Thanks again.

N2S - thanks for the feedback. Good to know I was able to pay it forward for the help I got. I can guess how frustrated you were - I was too. I am in a doctoral program and my MAC was starting to stall because of the space issue. Horrible. Now it's back to normal and I'm 🙂.

Thanks for the entry. The widgets site was down but I was able to do it with Omnidisksweeper.

Lowell N

Thanks for the OmniDiskSweeper info. It did the trick.

Lowell N

Thanks very much for this. Email is now coming in again after a 4 hour battle to figure out what was (or rather was not) going on.