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In Mavericks on my iMac, I have a "Flagged" Mail folder that shows "7", but it's empty. This started with Mavericks. I don't think I have any flagged messages, but if I do, I can't find them because of the empty folder. Is there any way I can resolve this, so I don't have that "7" hanging around? (I've restarted Mail, to no avail.)
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Mail
EvelynQR wrote:
no？
Sorry, I missed your answer. Do you solve problem?
There is a Delete option, when you Control-Click (Right-click) on the Flagged folder. It's a smart mailbox.
You can also select to rebuild the folder and see if that helps.
I don't get that option.
Let's see if reindexing your files will help:
Re-index Mail.
Go to your User's Library folder. (if you don't know how to find, see this link )
• Scroll to Mail folder.
• Select the V2 > MailData folder.
• Delete any files in MailData with envelope in the name. (should be 3)
When you open Mail it will re-index your files.
This worked perfect! One note...when I open up mail it popped up an initial screen to start importing mail. It took about 15 minutes to do the full import of 30000 messages, but the flagged messages appeared.
The second of two methods in this MacObserver post fixed my Flagged counter, which is to run the following terminal command (Lion to Yosemite ONLY, there is an alternative command for Snow Leopard):
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope\ Index vacuum
The first is to delete the envelope files in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData as mentioned in this thread earlier — for some reason this didn't resolve my issue.
1) Quit Mail.
2) In Finder, press Shift-Comand-G, and in the "Go to the folder:" box, enter:
~/library/mail/V2/maildata
3) Drag the following files to the Trash:
Envelope Index
Envelope Index-shm
Envelope Index-wal
ExternalUpdates.storedata
ExternalUpdates.storedata-shm
ExternalUpdates.storedata-wal
FlagMailboxes.plist
4) Start Mail; it should tell you it needs to reimport all your Mail messages; allow it to do so.
When this process is complete, you may see Flagged messages are once again indicated, but this time when you select the Flagged mailbox you should see the messages Mail thinks are flagged, and you should be able to take whatever action you want on those messages (unflag, delete, etc.)
5) Reboot before restarting the Mail app, otherwise you won't be able to empty your trash.
Flagged folder in Mail, in Mavericks
