Mail app 7 and no Flagged email

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Mail app 7 and no Flagged email

When upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, Mail.app lost the Flagged email mailbox. In other words, I used to click on the Flagged and all of my flagged emails would show up. There is no Flagged place to click.

Where did it go and how do I get it back?

All of my flagged emails are still there as they are showing up on my iPhone and iPad. Just not under Mail 7 under Mavericks.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 15" 2.66Ghz Core 2 Duo unibody

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 6:59 AM

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martymankins Author

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Oct 23, 2013 7:05 AM in response to martymankins

Ok. update to this.

I was able to find the flagged emails in Mail 7 (by viewing them on my iPhone and searching for the sender of each one). As I clicked on each Flagged email, they showed up under a newly created Flagged category, just like it was under Mountain Lion.

I would still call this a bug and one that's frustrating, but all of my Flagged emails are back and showing up on Mail 7 now.

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Oct 23, 2013 10:27 AM in response to martymankins

Marty,

When you say "searching for the sender", what are you actually doing? Searching on iPhone or Mail?

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martymankins Author

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Oct 23, 2013 10:31 AM in response to Roger.Cavanagh

I am searching on Mail 7 on my Mac. I am using the iPhone to view the Flagged emails.

Once I find and view each email on Mail 7 under Mavericks, it shows up in the Flagged area on the left navigation column.

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Foxtaur

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Apr 18, 2014 10:23 AM in response to martymankins

I have noticed that Mail uses Spotlight for all of its search capabilities.

If you have disabled Spotlight, you won't be able to search emails using the search bar, and your Flagged folder won't show a collection of all of the emails you've flagged.

You should check that Spotlight is operating on your local hard drive.

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