Mail doesn't show anything, it is completely blank

I know everybody is having problems with Gmail and Mail, I've looked for a solution to this in other posts but haven't found anything. I have a brand new MBPR that I am setting up from scratch, I'm not using my old backup, so I'm not restoring old mailboxes or anything. When I set up my Gmail account, everything inputs correctly, it accepts my login name and password and loads all my imap folders in the side bar, but it doesn't display anything, anywhere. If I click on an imap folder its just blank. If I click on my inbox its blank. The messages are there when I log in online, but nothing is downloading. I've let the MB sit to see if it was a problem with loading messages, but nothing has changed after hours of sitting. I've already installed the update for Mail, so it doesn't solve this problem. Here's a screen shot just to confirm, any help is appreciated.

I've got essentially the same problem. Setting up (not importing or converting from Mountain Lion) a Gmail account in Mail; Inbox and Sent are empty, whilst Junk, Trash and All Mail are populated with e-mails correctly. I too have applied the Mavericks Mail patch. I've tried deleting and re-adding the account, rebuilding mailboxes, and forcing Mail to synchronise, but to no avail. Can anyone offer any tips?

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Hi winkydb,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you do not see the events or clips you were working with previously, first see if you can switch back to the library you were using with this method:
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Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
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Mail should show me the e-mail address, but it doesn't. I mean.. if I receive a mail from a my friend and Mail thinks it's a spam mail, it put it in the spam directory.
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