Empty white folder but has number next to it!

After changing a blue folder name in .Mac on my MacBook using the Mail application, a white folder appeared. There is one blue subfolder inside. All my emails in that white folder have disappeared. Next to the white folder is the number 2150, the number of emails that was originally in the folder but is nowhere to be found. How can I get my 2150 emails back? What happened? All I did was to rename a folder and I'm having so many problems!

Lisa, did you ever get your issue resolved? Though perhaps not fully related to your situation, it might help to explain some of it...
Macworld magazine explained it this way:
"So why is a given folder white or blue? This is going to sound a bit strange, but a given folder in Mail is white if it doesn’t exist. I know what you’re thinking—“It must exist, I can see it!” And that’s true, it does exist. But unlike the blue folders, it doesn’t exist as an actual mailbox folder; it’s simply a folder. You can see this for yourself in the Finder.
Navigate to your user’s Library -> Mail -> Mailboxes folder. You’ll see an entry for each top-level folder you have in Mail. If you have any white folders, you’ll see that the folder’s name lacks the .mbox extension—this means that it’s just a folder, and not a real mailbox. As such, that folder cannot be used to store messages, since it’s not a mailbox, but it can store other folders." http://www.macworld.com/article/53837/2006/11/mailcolor.html
So white folders by themselves won't have emails inside. But they can contain mailboxes (blue folders) that do. This explains why trying to delete a mailbox (blue folder) that contains other nested mailboxes causes the enclosing mailbox to turn white. The action deletes all the messages in the enclosing mailbox, but does not delete the nested folders within. Once all the loose messages contained within the top-most folder are deleted it ceases being a mailbox folder and turns white. Mail Help Docs states:
"If you try to delete a mailbox that contains other mailboxes, the mailbox isn’t deleted and the mailbox icon in the sidebar turns white. Before you can delete a white mailbox, you must delete the mailboxes it contains."
Hope this clarifies things a bit. Cheers!

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