Duplicate Mail archive folders

Same problem exists here. ML 10.8.1

is there any solution ?

Same issue here on Mountain Lion after the update. Along with other Mail issues. 😟

Same issue here. Apple simply assume any folder named Archive is for their use. That's assanine. They should have done the "Use folder as Archive" approach where I declare a folder as Archive not just have their app go looking for any folder called Archive and call it theirs.

The Accounts.plist does show where you can delcare what name the "Archive" mailbox actually is.

For my On My Mac I simply renamed the Mailbox to "Local Archive" instead and I've got my Archive folder back to where I expect to see it.

Just to check is there still no fix for this!? They all come through to my phone as well! Seems to go off ever minute of the day now for each one of the 3 duplicates.

I am having the same problem. The archive folder "On My Mac" duplicated twice. Any change I make to one is reflected in the other so there is no way I can delete one of them as they would both be deleted. I spoke at length with an Apple Care rep yesterday and he had not even heard of the problem, although the Tech guy at the Apple Genius bar was aware of it and suggested I call Apple about it. Talk about a runaround!

I got rid of the duplicated folders by creating a new On My Mac mailbox called "Archived" and then moving the folders from one of the many Archive mailboxes into this new Archived one. This still left me with empty Archive mailboxes, but after restarting Mail the entire Archive container had disappeared 🙂

Cheers

Michael

I've had the same problem since upgrading to Mountain Lion. Today there was an update to Mail but the folder issue has not been fixed. Seems to be taking a long time to sort out.

Just upgaraded to Mountain Lion, and just ran into this issue. Unbelievable that there is still not a fix for this. Do Apple developers even use their own product? They must be on Gmail.

Does anyone know if this is already bugtracked by Apple?

Its a pretty annoying and primary bug...

But this way you can't use the archiving feature, you'll have to "archive" manually.

Furthermore I believe that properly archived emails are compressed, which makes archiving a bit more than just a useful helper.

Cheers,

Experiencing the same issue. Anyone found a resolution yet?

It looks like the only resolution thus far is to create a new folder (like "Archived"), copy the contents of your current Archive folder into the new folder, and then delete all of the duplicate Archive folders. Make sure you copy the contents first before you delete ANY of the Archive folders.

This is not a solution, but might help someone investigate further:

If you move the folder ~/Library/Mail/V2 to the Trash, and then start Mail.app, Mail creates a new copy of "On my Mac" under Archive.

I feel there has to be a place somewhere that keeps count how many times Mail has been migrated or how many times the accounts have been reset. Could have to do with SyncServices. Or not. I've spent too much time on this non-problem already. 😉

I have provided a solution/workaround in a previous post:

michaelw wrote:

I got rid of the duplicated folders by creating a new On My Mac mailbox called "Archived" and then moving the folders from one of the many Archive mailboxes into this new Archived one. This still left me with empty Archive mailboxes, but after restarting Mail the entire Archive container had disappeared 🙂

Cheers

Michael

The issue in my case that I had created an offline folder called "Archive" but Mail obviously sees a folder with that name as some special folder. So as long as you rename your own archive folder to something else - in my case I called it "Archived" it will work.

I rely on the Archive shortcut provided by Mail.app, and therefore want to use the "special" Archive folder. So moving the emails from the Archive folder to a normal folder is not really solving the problem for me.