how do i delete a vip mail box?

Hi, I'm using A macBook Pro Version 10.6.8 I can't find V 2 in ~/library. Am I in the wrong library? This VIP mailbox is on my iPhone not on my Mac Book Pro.

Thanks

John

I did as stated, and got rid of the emails, but the folder itself is still very much there. And that is the one that bugs me!!!😠 Anyone??

Beautiful - thanks so, so much! Terminal junkies can cut and paste this into the command line:

rm ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/VIPSenders.plist

Are you sure you quit Mail, then did as mrfcobf suggests, then relaunched mail? I accidentally did not and I saw what you are seeing.

Yes,

mrfcobf's solution dated 9/3/12 works like a charm. Thanks so much!

Hi mrfcobf

I followed your instructions to a Tee, however, the VIP folder is still there. Not only did I close Mail, I restarted

my Mac too.

I checked and the VIP plist is gone, but the folder is still in my Mail side bar.

Urrrr, I hate this VIP folder just sitting there. I have no use for it and wish to remove it. Anymore ideas?

Important to quit from mail and to make sure VIPSenders.plist is deleted.

Then the silly VIP goes away.

Who thinks up these unnecessary things?

I quit mail, deleted the VIPSenders.plist, restarted mail, no dice, still there.

Just to be sure, terminal based deletion shows the file is indeed gone.

$ rm ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/VIPSenders.plist

rm: /Users/jphelps/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/VIPSenders.plist: No such file or directory

However, I noticed VIP was opening as the default folder because I'd had it selected previously. I selected my unread smart mailbox instead, shut down mail, restarted and now VIP is gone.

Hi!

I'm sort of new to this so I appreciate your patience and understanding. I have a Mac Pro and Mountain Lion. In mail box I inadvertently clicked the "Flagged" icon. It's now permanently my mailbox and I've been trying to remove it unsuccessfully. I've been searching the Apple Support Community site and found your answer regarding removing the VIP mailbox so I assumed that this should work for the Flagged mailbox. I followed your steps but it didn't work. I thought that maybe there are slightly different steps to remove the flag. I hope so.

You were the only one that provided anything close to a solution. I tried to contact you directly through the Apple community but being new to this, I didn't know how. So I addressed my problem to the whole Apple community. Now after the fact, I was able to figure out how to contact you directly. So if you see responses elsewhere, this is the reason why.

Any advise or guidance is greatly appreciated. Thank you again for your time.

artcalm

I don't have a Mac Pro, I have an iMac, but all I have to do to remove the flag from a message is click on the flag icon again. Click once it puts the flag on, click twice it takes it off.

If you want to remove the flag icon from your mail tool bar, click on View in your Mail menu and under View click on Customize Toolbar.

Thanks for your prompt response. I had to run an errand so I completely shut my Mac Pro down. When I started it up again, Flagged was gone from my mail box. Apparently mrfcobf's solution worked but for whatever reason, just not right away.

To you (even though I didn't have to try your solution), mrfcobf's, and everyone else who may respond thank you very much.

Thanks so much for this. Worked PERFECTLY and your instructions were so easy to follow.

thank you again.

cheers

I was having the same problem of the empty folder still there. Once you follow the instructions and delete the file, make sure you go empty your trashcan. That fixed it for me.

This definitely doesn't work. I tried it many, many times before it just disappeared of its own accord.

That didn't work for me.