Gmail messages not showing in Apple Mail

My employer just got me a brand new 15" MBP (Oct. 2013 model), running Mavericks 10.9.1. I'm going to use my old 2009 13" MBP for home use. I used Mail.app to view my work email and gmail accounts on my old computer. I had gmail configured in POP, with the idea of not deleting any messages from the gmail server so I could go back if I ever needed to to find a message. Well now I want to keep my email synced between devices, so I configured gmail as IMAP. After about 3 days of continuous downloading, I had the IMAP gmail set up (over 50,000 messages). It was working fine.
I also have a lot of old messages from an old work email account that I like to keep in Mail.app for reference. I imported these from my old Mac to the new mac. No problem. But after I did that, my gmail mailbox showed an unread message count of 50,000 + whatever it was, but no messages were displayed. Unfortunately, I don't have a timemachine backup for this new computer. I deleted the Envelope Index file in the Library/Mail/V2/MailData folder, as someone suggested in a different post and re-imported all messages, but this didnt work.
I have a time machine external drive with my old computer's backups. With the backup drive plugged into my new computer and with Mail.app active, I can click on the time machine icon at the top and select "Browse other backup disks...". I select the old backup drive and it will first show "Today" with the Mail.app open. I can see all my gmail messsages here. Time machine says "Click restore to recover the inbox for Gmail" or something like that. But the "Restore" button is grayed out, cause it's today.
I messed around with .plist and things in the Mail libraries, but nothing changed. Somewhere in my messing around with things, the message count went away. the mailbox setting have not been changed from what they were previously. I know all my messages are still on my mac cause the "[email protected]" folder is still 8.51 GB, which is what it should be.
I was able to import all the gmail emails in to mail via File->Import Mailboxes..., but this puts everything in it's own Import folder and not in the gmail inbox.
Also I can't receive new messages in gmail via Mail.app.
My work email (also set up as IMAP) is working just fine.
I don't want to remove the gmail account and reinstall, spending another 3 or 4 days downloaded all the messages (I don't know why it took that long).
Any help is appreciated.

I "fixed" the problem by copying the entire mail folder from the library on my old mac onto my new mac, replacing the newer mail folder. My old mac had gmail working just fine. Now everything works on my new. This didn't really fix the problem though. I'm not sure what was wrong with it.

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