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I recently did a restore of some emails from a Time Machine backup. The restored emails were placed in the mailbox com.apple.Mail.Backup. I no longer need that mailbox but when I try to delete it, nothing happens.
On Sierra 10.12.3.
Any thoughts?
MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.3)
May be a long shot. Quit Mail. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Mail/V4 and see if you can find/delete the mailbox there.
Earlier I thought another poster said that they had renamed the sub-folders to delete them.
Being overly cautious, I think I'll wait for someone braver than I to replicate your procedure and hopefully report back here.
Thanks for all your help on this issue. You might contact Apple and let them know what you did.
I had this problem and the method above solved my problem.
I deleted the com.apple.Mail.Backup.mbox mailbox from the folder in the Mail/V5 folder.
Launched Mail and deleted the folders from the sidebar and Voila.
Thank you for the help
Apple software engineers will have an answer for it .We all here are Mac users a link is there for feedback Product Feedback - Apple
Have you tried control - click/Delete?
I did try this Eric, no help
You are welcome.
Hello Eric,
I have tried the solution above, but when I go to Macintosh HD / Library / there is no Mail to click on....
Am I looking in the wrong place?
Peter
Gotcha, thanks, it worked that time; I think that I already had finder open when I tried before.
Cheers,
Peter
You are welcome.
You are welcome. That is the reason I suggested moving the files to the Desktop and then testing before deleting.
The problem is widespread so you have to assume that Apple is aware of it.
Did you rename each sub-folder to JUST "com.apple" or was it the full "com.apple.Mail.Backup" . I have not tried it but I can't figure out why that would cause the file to disappear.
I had better luck. I right clicked and deleted the mailbox and restarted mail. It has been gone for an hour. Hope it stays that way.
I think there is another solution: I renamed the mailbox com.apple.Mail.Backup, and then I could deleted.
That did not work for me. I wish it did. Thank for posting.
Cannot Delete Mailbox "com.apple.Mail.Backup" after Time Machine Restore
