I have accidentally flagged all my emails. How do I unflag them?

I have accidentally flagged all my emails. How can I unflag them all at once?

Posted on Feb 20, 2014 10:36 PM

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Posted on Dec 15, 2017 12:25 PM

Ok i had an issue with 14K emails being flagged and the responses on here are actually true but not clear enough... in order to clear flagged emails in-mass is to click on each email account, Click "edit" on the top right corner, then click the "Mark All" on the bottom left. The screen should reset, click the edit button again and select "mark all" again and select "un-flag" if the "un-flag" does not show up its because the app is selecting ALL of the emails. If you are like me and you have 17 email accounts with over 300K emails in each account, this may take some time.... Go to the next email account you have then come back to the account that needed some time to load....


I hope this helps to clear up the process.... thanks everyone!!!

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Jun 28, 2017 5:01 AM in response to Dmazin

Open a Finder window.

Select Go. | Go to Folder ,from the menu.

Type "~/Library/Mail

You can see V2 may be V4 folder including your all of your mail.Please check the permission of these folders using right click go to "get info" then you can see the sharing and permission options .There is a yellow lock by clicking on the lock promit credentials ,give your credentials for unlock .Please give permission to the particular user by adding the + symbol and select the user and click on the setting symbol button "Apply to enclosed items". Then go to mail and select all mails you have flagged ,Right click on all selected mail click on "Clear flag".

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