Apple mail accounts & boxes Missing

Trisha,

I thought the rebuild did not work for me, either, but after a while, everything in my inbox reappeared. Give it some time.

David

I had the same problem. I had to click on the mailbox i wanted to rebuild and it worked. i had a few under inbox as well as sent mail. all were fixed. and to a previous point, it did take a few minutes for the larger mailboxes.

Thanks, saved lots of work and my night. I can go to bed now!

Thank you, this helped me. Though the rebuild took some time it was not until I quit Mail; then reopened that all the emails reappeared.

Disappointed with Apple that so many have had migration problems!

me too

bad bug, Apple

Hi All, I had a similar problem with all my emails. I had lost all the sub-folders in 'on my Mac' and tried all the other solutions that had been offered - the subfolders is where I sort all my mail - in short I was knackered and panicked. I then stumbled across a solution that worked for me. This has bought back all my accounts and all my subfolders.

1. I removed and reinstalled all my mail accounts which bough back all mail that is on the email system.

To reinstall all subfolders in Mail - on my mac:

1. I created a new Mailbox called 'Test' which showed under On my Mac.

2. I opened Finder and navigated to Library

3. Under Mail I found the folder in V2 or V3 which had the folder named 'Test' (mine was in V3)

4. I then copied one of my missing folders that I had found under Mailboxes in V3 into this same folder.

5. I then deleted all the files named - envelope which forced a rebuild of the entire mailbox and it worked.

6. Once I had proven it worked for one I repeated steps 4 & 5 with all the missing folders and my on-my-mac had rebuilt perfectly.

7. You don't have to do them one at a time but can do them all in one go.

I hope this helps either you or anyone else who had the same problem as I did.

Please note: I'm no expert so I cannot guarantee this is a 100% fault free solution - that said it is 24 hours now and everything appears fine.

Good luck all.

This was my solution !

Thanks !

i tried rebuilding.

it didn't work.

i'm starting to sweat.

I clicked rebuild . . . but if something happened . . . no clue

Anyway next to iCloud is a + button and Show / hide button

I clicked it and all showed up 🙂

I don't think any of my mail has been on the cloud. I tried that button and it made no difference. blargh.

I deleted the accounts and then added them as new and voila! There they were. Good job they were gmail accounts...easy as falling off a...

I had tried all the hack fixes in the Library folder to no avail, this worked first time...simple really. Imagine it will only work for external accounts though, dunno😕

The reply from NickMy2 (laid out nicely in a numbered list) worked out for me too ... Thank you so much as it all looked terribly bleak for a while. I am not yet back to where I was as things are a bit in the wrong place, but 95% looking good. Note to anyone else though ... reading some of the other posts here will help with things like finding the MAIL folder in LIBRARY.

I have been a fan of Apple since taking the leap about two years ago - this issue has knocked my confidence hugely! How can such a user friendly non geaky approach to computing suddenly fall headlong into a pit which makes the Microsoft world look somewhat less complex!

I figured it out without having to do anything crazy. Go to mail: preferences: accounts and click the little square that says "enable". If it's already checked, uncheck and recheck. Voila, all subfiles and mailboxes appear. 🙂

My problem was that two accounts did not appear in Mail (either in preferences or as mailboxes) but were showing in internet accounts and there were folders in ~/Library!

When I tried to add the accounts it said they already existed. Deleting from internet accounts then re-installing was the logical step, and it worked fine. A couple of days later and all still works as it should 🙂