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Smart mailboxes are empty in Mavericks mail

I have several smart mailboxes, and with the upgrade to Mavericks, they're all empty, including the VIP mailboxes.


Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a fix? Does Apple know about it?


Thanks!

Doc

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 2:23 AM

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Oct 23, 2013 8:14 AM in response to Doc411

Recreated my Smart Mailboxes and things like Today's Email are still not working.


This is weird. Now my Smart Mailboxes are slowly repopulating. I had 13 messages in my Unread folder but only three are showing. If I clcik on Yesterday's Email folder, there's a delay of 3-4 seconds before anything appears. Same with Today's Email.

Oct 24, 2013 5:46 AM in response to Barney-15E

I removed Mail's index files and it recreated them, but to no avail.


Simple smart mailboxes work, but most of those which rely on other smart mailboxes don't.


When opening a smart mailbox, the console reports the following error:

Mail[15299]: Unable to create Spotlight query for expression (((((_kMDQueryScope != '/Users/ [...] ) && (kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.mail.emlx') with alot of conditions. Does this error message help anyone?

Smart mailboxes are empty in Mavericks mail

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