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Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder

After installing Mavericks I'm unable to unselect "Store draft messages on the server" and "Store sent messages on the server" checkboxes under my Gmail accounts settings. Unselecting both checkboxes and saving settings works for up to a minute or so - after that the check marks re-appear again by themselves. As a result I end up with dozens of half-finished drafts in the Trash folder after I finish the original and send it out.


I used to have both checkboxes unselected prior to Mavericks, and everything was working fine.


Any suggestions on how to fix this?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 10:45 PM

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Nov 8, 2013 8:53 PM in response to samelot

Confirming that Steve's fix (supra) works with the Nov 7 Mavericks Mail update.


Down side is that mobile devices using iOS7 can no longer take advantage of saving drafts to the server as you are turning it off at the source.


This is too bad since iOS7 (and 6) can handle the Drafts issue properly.

The Apple iOS team needs to teach the Mavericks Mail team a few lessons ASAP.

Nov 11, 2013 11:39 AM in response to indiekiduk2

today also had the feeling that the syncing still didn't work properly (some mails on my iphone mail.app didn't show in my OS X mail.app) anybody else experiencing that problem still?
Also hate it that deleting mails doesn't archive but actually deletes the mails entirely; contrary to mail under Mountain Lion... Please restore that feature Apple!

Nov 14, 2013 1:36 AM in response to Igor D.

So I'm right in thinking that the only way around this at present is to turn off drafts syncing in the Gmail settings? Not exactly an ideal solution and I thought this was a fix that Apple would have made in the recent "Mail fix". I'm beginnging to wonder why I bothered upgrading to Mavericks - absolutely nothing of any use compare to Mountain Lion and a much slower machine!

Nov 14, 2013 4:50 AM in response to Alan Green

I absolutely concur Alan - I too have noticed a drop in speed with Mavericks.


I had Lion before and that was faster and less troublesome too. There is also an issue with Screen Saver: with Lion I could chose a Screen Saver from iPhoto 9. That option is no longer available with Mavericks, and I'm far from being the only one that has noticed that quirk. Not a partucularly good upgrade at all - perhaps that's why it was free! 😉

Nov 16, 2013 12:30 AM in response to Alan Green

Naw, they're up to something. They could have made it work...google and apple constantly do this to each other, and customers get caught up in the middle of them fighting. It's there for a reason...I'm sure there will be a renewed push for an Apple email service or something soon.


This idea of going back to Mountain Lion sounds awesome, is it difficult?

Nov 16, 2013 12:35 AM in response to therealikt

Not really, as long as you have everything backed up (and not with time machine, use something like superduper which creates an actual backup and not some weird file structure that time machine does). Just create a bootable mountain lion thumb drive (use lion diskmaker for that) and then restart from that, use disk utility to erase your drive and then install mountain lion.


I generally do this every 6 months or so anyway just to get rid of any rubbish that's built up on my the Mac. Just remember the full backup though!

Nov 16, 2013 12:53 AM in response to therealikt

As a user of both platforms I'd say that Apple are definately the greater of 2 evils here. Most Google services are platform agnostic, whereas most Apple services are completely propietory.


Apple are slow to fix bugs at the best of times, there is an awesome bug in iOS 7 that my friend has which prevents WiFi from being turned on and it seems the only solution is a replacement device. It's taking her 3-4 weeks to get appointments to see a "genius" in a store to sort it.


In contrast, I called Google support about a screen problem with my Chromebook Pixel (gifted at Google I/O) and they will cross ship a brand new replacement no questions asked.

Mavericks Mail app and Gmail Drafts folder

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