mail index corruption

Hi budspwr,

I found some steps to reindex Mail's messages that may help:

Mail (Mountain Lion): Reindex messages

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11704

1. Quit Mail if it’s open.
2. In ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData, delete any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm.Your home Library folder is hidden by default. To display it, choose Finder > “Go to Folder” and then enter “~/Library.”
3. Open Mail.Mail creates new Envelope Index files. This process may take a few minutes, depending on how many messages Mail is reindexing.

Cheers!

- Ari

Hi budspwr,

Thanks for your reply and trying. I think you may benefit more from assistance beyond what is available here on the forums then. Due to the nature of your issue or question you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources:

https://expresslane.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action

Take care,

- Ari

Out of interest to everyone, it's great to know the solution to this problem is readily available.

I had this problem with an iMac when upgrading from 10.6.8 to Yosemite.

I must have tried 6 times to do this rebuild/reindex without success until...

- I found I had files stored in 2 places : /mail and v2/maildata

For me it was necessary to:

1. Remove all the imap accounts from both places

2. Remove envelope index and associated files as explained elsewhere from both places.

Once that was done, hey presto! It rebuilt very quickly.

Thanks to everyone who takes time to contribute. When it's all going pear-shaped these discussion help enormously.

These two conversations helped me also:

http://osxdaily.com/2013/08/01/rebuild-mailbox-reindex-messages-mail-mac-os-x/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1427197?start=0&tstart=0