smart mailbox unread counts wrong

Still not working for me. I have no idea what is going on. When will this issue be resolved; the patch did nothing to resolve this for me.

Feh!

It worked for me. Thanks for sharing. I wish I could give you points for helping!

@tarpus Did you follow these instructions from RioMacUser? I worked for me. Apple's patch was just a waste of time.

I fixed this for my smart mailboxes (Mail.app v7.0 1822) by following these steps:

1. Open a terminal

2. Re-index Spotlight

sudo mdutil -E /

I suspect this is related to Mavericks improvements in Spotlight, as it now indexes Mail.app messages much better than in previous releases.

Yesterday I upgrade to Mavericks and smart mailboxes aren't working for me either...

It's a pity...

Same issue for me (showing 26 in an unread only folder, but nothing is in the folder). I'm currently trying to rebuild after removing the Envelope files. In an hour or so I'll know if it worked for me.

The solution from RioMacUser worked for me (thanks). I'm curious if others have waited long enough and actually looked in the mail boxes before claiming that this doesn't work for them. My folder was still marked with the same qty, but now the emails were in the box, then I had to delete three batches of emails to get it empty and now the qty matches the number. Good luck.

I did this and it helped. Now can you tell me how to trash the indexes? they have been in my Trash folder for a week!

This worked for me, Thanks a bunch. moved "Envelope" files from V2 to desktop, mail rebuilt the folder index. working properly. Thanks! R

@Lorelei: in Finder choose 'Secure Empty Trash' in the Finder menu.

But removing the Envelopes didn't work for me. It changed something tho (now only showing 1 read mail in my 'Unread' smart mailbox, instead of 11 old ones).

Went on to try re-indexing Spotlight, following Bruce's Terminal command. Nothing happened. Did some googling: turned out that somehow Spotlight was disabled (although in Preferences all was good).

I added one line:

sudo mdutil -E /

sudo mdutil -i on /

Now Spotlight is re-indexing fine. Might take a few hours, so don't know yet if this fixes anything...

BTW, Apple's way of re-indexing Spotlight (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409) didn't work for me, probably due to the mysterious disabling of Spotlight...

It seems that re-indexing Spotlight did the trick for me! Smart mailboxes working fine again.

Thanks, JAG66.

Your November 9, 2013 post solved the problem for me.

I had similar problems with Mail on Mavericks - at least - I have one folder -Jobs- in 'On my mac' containg a lot of subfolders that receive emails for customers according to rules...

The containing Jobs folder didn't show mailcount after upgrading to Mavericks.

After searching the web I ended up here and was just clicking around in mail...

Suddenly I clicked right to the line 'ON MY MAC' in the Mailbox list and there was this 'HIDE" command (feek dumb but didn't even know it was there...)

After clicking it and afterwards clicking SHOW again, suddenly the correct message-count was also on my containing Jobs folder...

It can well be that I did something stupid at some point but perhaps someone else is actually having the same minor problem

cheers

Thank You, RioMacUser,

Worked perfectly for me!😉

Thanks Rio, your method worked for me! Hope it sticks!

I have noticed that the new dedicated "Archive" folders in Mail require some additional rules for my smart mailboxes to get them to work as desired (i.e., not to show messages I've already archived, that may be unread, in my unread smartmailbox). Good luck all.