Importing mailboxes with erro

I have made my back up on mail to clean my machine and now I can't sync it back. I have try to import all the message using import from menu and it does work all right and import all the mailboxes OK , but when I open in the mail the mailboxes there is no message there (some mailboxes only) - on the library / mail it does count the message there without a problem all right . Why is missing on the importation ??? how can I do to import that??? I try to delete the file index but even after I restart and make all the process the message is not there on the mail - BUT I CAN SEE IN THE LIBRARY...

Report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/ folder in the Finder.
In order to post the exact file names and avoid typing mistakes, proceed as follows. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, if you’re looking at it in View > as List mode, first collapse any expanded folders so that the Finder only shows the files and folders at the first level of ~/Library/Mail/. Now, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post.
Before actually posting that information, edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you should keep private, e.g. replace any real username with “username” to hide your real email address. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the procedure to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Which of those mailboxes do you have problems with?
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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