all at once? I don't want to do it one by one = isn't there any way to do a rebuilding and/or reindexing of Mail [all mailboxes] and its mailboxes all at once?
Also, I have a few SmartMailboxes and moved things from them and deleted them on my iMac == and they came back. I've done it a couple of times and they still come back. I want them gone!
iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
Rebuilding is a mailbox by mailbox task. Reindexing can be done in one step.
Reindex messages For El Capitan, try looking in V3. Sierra use V4. High Sierra use V5.
Reindex messages (2) See post by Linc Davis
I tried this on one of my mailboxes for a Google mail account. After clicking rebuild my mailbox did NOT appear to be empty. What am I doing wrong? I assume that local copies of my email is stored on my hard drive. How do I tell Spotlight to exclude it and then allow it? In other words what is the level for the hard drive. I Windows it was the "C:" drive. Thanks in advance.
I would exclude the computer's hard drive and then remove it from Privacy. If you don't see it when clicking the +, try Finder/Preferences/Sidebar/Devices and check the box(es). That should make it visible in the Finder Sidebar and it should show when clicking the +.
When I go into System Preferences->Spotlight->Privacy then click on the plus sign I get the screen shown below.
Do I move "Genec" in then out? Where is the mail data stored? How do I get my hard drive to display. Lot's of questions for a fairly new Mac user but an old guy. Thanks for your help and patience.
Thanks. But I went into Finder and saw the bottom picture.
But when trying to do the exclude saw this:
In Finder
Reference the 1st screen shot - are you at System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy? This is what mine looks like and when I click the + to add, it opens showing the Finder Sidebar.
Mail and Mailboxes - how to rebuild/reindex
