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Q: Yosemite Mail Sorting Function Missing

Last night I upgraded to Yosemite.  Now when you use the sorting tabs, the system sorts alpha / numerically, but takes your original message out of view (the one you are sorting against), forcing you to scroll and search for your results.  This was never the case, from OS9 to the last OS X before Yosemite.  If you have 7 email accounts to manage with thousands of emails, it takes productivity and throws it out the window.  Now forced to used the search function which is as slow if not slower due to typing, and then sorting again with the same results.  Why bother putting sort buttons there at all if you just have to re-scroll manually.  This is true when sorting by from, date, subject, whatever.  If I only had 10 emails this would not be an issue.

 

If anyone knows if there is a setting, please speak up.  I have verified the issue with phone support as well, or they are missing something too.  There is another thread that looks to be closed so I am reposting.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10), Mail

Posted on Oct 28, 2014 1:51 PM

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  • by LCroz,

    LCroz LCroz Jul 13, 2015 11:18 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Jul 13, 2015 11:18 AM in response to Barney-15E

    Thank you for this information!! Can you share how you found/figured this out, so next time I'll know to look there?

     

    Also, I used to go straight to a desired Mail folder ("Mailbox") by doing a search, choosing the Mailbox name, selecting a message from those listed within that Mailbox, then clicking on the Mailbox name in the message header (upper right corner). The left sidebar used to then jump directly to where that Mailbox is in my folder tree. Not any more! When I hover over that Mailbox name now, I just see the little white-gloved hand, and if I click on the Mailbox name it does nothing :-( I used to use this all the time since I have lots of Mailboxes - hoping you or someone else can help!

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jul 13, 2015 4:55 PM in response to LCroz
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    Jul 13, 2015 4:55 PM in response to LCroz

    LCroz wrote:

     

    Thank you for this information!! Can you share how you found/figured this out, so next time I'll know to look there?

    Like everything in the Mac OS. I just try things. It isn't Windows where trying things would end up losing your data or worse. For the most part, Mac OS will not default to the dangerous thing. If there is a chance at loss of data, it should question you specifically and not with a double-negative to make the Yes, No, Cancel buttons work out.

     

    But, this probably takes a bit more knowledge. I understand scrolling views, and in general, how they must be programmed. So it was readily apparent that it wasn't scrolling the list after re-ordering.

    I'm not sure that is something the general public would know, so it might not have occurred to anyone to move the selection (i.e. try things).

    However, if you scrolled down to the original selection, you would have found it was selected (which was my big hint). Since it was still selected, and knowing that moving the selection should force a re-scroll of the view (if the programmer did it right), I just tried it. What the programmer forgot was to re-scroll the view after changing the sort order.

     

    It seems to be fixed in 10.10.4

     

    The second part I wasn't aware of, and I don't think that feature is available, nor do I know a workaround.

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