OSX 10.12.x

[daryl66]

FWIW: Had a requirement to access an older e mail and lo and be hold found that about 90% of my e mail folders were BLANK. Could find no common thread as to why a few folders still had e mails but most were blank, ie: dates, subject, e mail account, NOTHING.

Plugged in my last back-up drive OSX 10.11.x  ( I know I know) and all was well.  A little search on the Apple support forum  found that OSX 10.12.x  created this issue in Mail. A very simple solution was to select the blank mailbox folder and hit "command L", which I guess disabled the mailbox filter.  The messages magically appeared. If the folder happened to be one of the ones that had e mails in them, then the mails disappeared, so I am not sure whether one is disabling or enabling.  Who cares???  Got my e mails back and my heart rate back to normal.

Daryl

[Xairbusdriver]

Must be a new command in macOS 10.12 Sierra? Can you find it in any menu? Perhaps it's the Mailbox->Rebuild command? Still haven't switched, still looking for a "round-to-it" of any color...

[daryl66]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Jan 24 2017, 03:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Must be a new command in macOS 10.12 Sierra? Can you find it in any menu? Perhaps it's the Mailbox->Rebuild command? Still haven't switched, still looking for a "round-to-it" of any color...

Mail 10.2>view  
Rebuild no help.

Daryl