Mail Archive Folder

Ok, about a week after installing Mavericks, Mail has decided to move ALL of my incoming mail into a special folder called "Archive". I am not sure if this folder existed before, but it is making Mail basically unusable for me. I have no rules set up in Mail or on any of my gmial accounts.
Help.

An update to Mail was released yesterday that may improve compatibility with Gmail.
Gmail is an intentionally broken implementation of IMAP that often causes problems with Mail. The problem seems to have gotten worse in Mavericks. My recommendation is either not to use Gmail at all, or to access it through the website. You may also get better results from another email client.
If you insist on trying to make Gmail work with Mail, the following links may help:
Configuring OS X Mail For Gmail Without Duplicates
Mail in Mavericks Changes the Gmail Equation
Gmail ... IMAP ... Mac Mail ... Mavericks ... SOLUTION

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Dear Outlook IT Professionals:
Has anyone experienced seeing a strange e-mail archive folder (in a different language, other than English), within an English only version Outlook 2013?
Basically, I found an e-mail archive folder, which is in another language, in my e-mail Inbox; that I did not create, and its properties seems to be hidden. Therefore, I am unable to see the archive folder's attributes. This Microsoft Outlook
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Security programs may cause such issue, please temporaily disable all your security programs to check the issue again.
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If I drag and drop (say) all of 2011's email into the Archive folder - does it remove them from the server, but still keeps them readable and searchable on my Mac?
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Thanks very much for this. However, I understand how dragging and dropping files normally works. It just seems the it wont work when you do it with emails when you are transfering them into a normal finder system folder. If you highlight one file and drag it to a finder folder it works, but when you drag multiple, it just wont let you do it.
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How to open and display and mail archive folder?

We were running Novell and GW for a number of years. Recently, we have migrated to Microsoft and Outlook. We have a number of GW archive folders that I now want to access. I understood that I could retain an installation of GW on my PC and although no longer connected to the server, I should be able to browse and open the archive, to retrieve these emails
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On 3/14/2013 5:46 AM, jason zaccaria wrote:
>
> We were running Novell and GW for a number of years. Recently, we have
> migrated to Microsoft and Outlook. We have a number of GW archive
> folders that I now want to access. I understood that I could retain an
> installation of GW on my PC and although no longer connected to the
> server, I should be able to browse and open the archive, to retrieve
> these emails
>
> Have tried this, but they dont display. When I go to check mailbox
> size, it is seeing data as the it reads the same file size as the folder
> of archived email - so I think they are there somewhere!
>
> Any suggestions please??
>
>
provide more information. It should work. But only if you installed GW
in remote or caching mode.

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after registering my macbook pro 2.4ghz core 2 duo running mavericks 10.9.1 for the app "messages", i've noticed emails addressed to my .mac account no longer go to my inbox on this computer, they land in the "archive" folder.
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How to avoid messages going automatically to the archive folder in Apple Mail?

Dear list members, I've been using Apple Mail (version 7.3 (1878.6)) on my MacBook Pro 13" (9,2) (MacOS 10.9.4) for years to integrate my GMail, university, and other e-mail accounts in the imap mode. Since some weeks, Mail is behaving odd: some messages are sent automatically to the archive folder. That's quite annoying, as I have to move them manually back to the inbox folder, and sometimes I mess some messages. I did not change any config in Apple Mail or my e-mails servers. Could you please help me solve this problem? Thanks.

The Archive folder in Apple Mail is linked to the All Mail "label" in Gmail. A label is treated like an IMAP folder, but it really isn't the same thing.
In case you weren't aware, Gmail saves every email you send or receive inside the All Mail label. In Gmail, you can tag a file with multiple labels. So, a file that comes into Gmail appears in two places at once, the Inbox and All Mail. When you trash a file, the Inbox label is removed, but it still remains in All Mail.
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I am in the porcess of tryign Mail again, and i must admitt it is a bit of a challenge.
The following problem for example seems so simple but i cannot get it to work.
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Archive folder missing from Mail & search not working

I've been having trouble getting the Archive mailbox to appear in Mail. What's worse, often the search function is broken, and Mail doesn't turn up any search results. I've found some ways to get the Archive folder to reappear, but these only seem to help temporarily. For instance, clicking on the gear at the bottom left and selecting "Get Account Info" then selecting the Archive folder causes it to reappear, but this is only temporary and it disappears after another restart or sometimes after an hour or two. The search not working is the worst, as it sometimes is working and sometimes isn't. I don't have any idea what's causing this, but I am at my wit's end because I NEED Mail to be firing on all cylinders.

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What are your selections in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced for this Gmail account, if using IMAP, regarding keeping message for Offline use? The Mail search can only access the list of messages to search Subject, From, etc, but not the entire message unless copies of all messages are being kept on the computer. This would be true for any IMAP account, btw.
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How do I add a folder to my Archive folder in Mail?

On previous versions of Mail (on my Mac, NOT on my iPhone), I was able to move whole folders into Archive, but I can't seem to do that anymore. When I move a folder over the Archive folder, nothing happens.
After looking around, it looks like I can only move single messages or groups of messages into the Archive folder, but that can't be right, can it?
I want to keep my archived emails sorted by the folders they exist in already... can someone please help me do that?

The only way you can now add additional folders to the 'Archive' folder/mailbox is to create the new folders using the specific mail application.
If you have Apple Mail pointing to a Gmail account, you will need to access Gmail web interface and create the folder there. Likewise for Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc.
Not sure if this will work for Apple Cloud mail accounts.
I have a @sky.com account and accessed the Sky webmail interface, created the new folders (Archive/*****) and reopned Apple Mail and there they were under the Archive folder :-)

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this is certianly not a pressing issue at all. I like to have my email very organized with folders and whatnot. I was wondering if anyone had run into the problem with the "archive" folder appearing as a folder in mail, but the archive box icon in the web browser?
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Here's a link to the image. The uploader is not working on my end I guess. /___sbsstatic___/migration-images/165/16581333-1.png

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