Mail in library question

I typically trash old mail by deleting it, and it winds up in the trash folder. Periodically, I empty the trash folder. But I have found that there is a POP folder in my user library/mail/POPusername folder. It seems that all my old emails are there, although I thought I had trashed them. These files only have numbers for names. But if I double-click them, the old email opens.
So I realize that some of the emails that are in there are emails that I thought were lost forever, which I would like to recover. But how can I view them by actual sender, title, and date? And how can I recover some and delete others permanently (as some of them are junk mail that contain viruses and phish stuff)?

So -- what are your settings in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors with regard to Trash? Ever change them?
With the Inbox of this POP account open, click on View and report whether Show Deleted Messages or Hide Deleted Messages is presented, and whether that choice is black or gray?
If Deleted Messages have only been hidden the Inbox for some period of time, then with the Inbox open, only Erase Deleted Messages in the Selected Mailbox may remove them.
More info, please.
Ernie

Similar Messages

Mail duplicates, storage question

I was in the middle of setting up a new Mail 5.2 backup plan and noticed something odd. I'm using 10.7.3.
I thought Mail since Lion stored mail here: ~/Library/Mail/V2. Sure enough, I have directories there. But they are almost all dated July '11, which I was when I upgraded to Lion. An exception is an account I created recently.
If I go to what I thought was supposed to be the old, no-longer-used directory—~/Library/Mail—there sits my email, with updated files which I presume are new emails.
This, unfortunately, leaves me with lots of duplicates. I don't see them in Mail, of course, but they take up space and I fear could lead to problems down the line. I don't see any way to direct Mail to use the /Mail directory as opposed to the /Mail/V2 directory.
So: can I just delete the old email directories? I realize there are also other directories with other data, but in /Mail/V2 they also seem outdated and haven't been modified recently. Same with my MailTags info and plists; they are old in the /V2 folder. I can afford to just import or trash the new account that's in there; it's IMAP with few messages. And I have good backups.
And if I do eliminate the V2 folders, do I have recreate a V2 folder with my current mailboxes in it? or can I leave it alone?
Rob

as an update, it does! I've since deleted the accounts but it still looks like there is some stored somewhere on my MBA as the memory is lower than before I started.
Any thoughts? Thank you!

HT5312 PLZ help! I forgot my rescue e-mail and security question. What can i do?

PLZ help! I forgot my rescue e-mail and security question. What can i do?

You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of contacting them include clicking here and picking a method for your country, phoning AppleCare and asking for the Account Security team, and filling out and submitting this form.
(99891)

Mail server setup question on mini server

I want use Mac Mini Server as my emailserver, I have some question here.
Is 500G hard-disk enough for storedata? After two or three years, incase 500G already not enough for store all email data, Could I have any solution for this issue? My company has around 100 email user.
Is Mac mini server can do 7*24job?

Is 500G hard-disk enough for storedata?
How long is a piece of string?
Seriously. Who can answer that question? no one here can. It depends on way more factors than you've given us. The use of IMAP (where messages are stored on the server) vs. POP (where they're downloaded to the client) will also make a difference, as will retention policies (do you require keeping all email correspondence for 5 years? or do you not care if users delete mail immediately?)
A good starting point, though would be to look at the average size of a user's mailbox now and extrapolate.
For example, I think I'm a fairly heavy email user and my ~/Library/Mail directory is 5.4GB. If everyone in your company is like me then you'd need 5.4GB x 100 users, or 540GB to store all their mail.
Most users aren't like me, though, but you'll have to determine that yourself.
After two or three years, incase 500G already not enough for store all email data, Could I have any solution for this issue?
Sure. You can add additional storage (e.g. via FireWire or some external mechanism) and migrate mailboxes there. You can even selectively store different user's mailboxes on different volumes. It's all possible.
Is Mac mini server can do 7*24job?
Sure. Many people are using the Mini 24/7. I wouldn't say it's ideal for critical systems but using mirrored disk will insulate you from the biggest problem. If this is going to be the main mail system for your company though, you need to consider other elements such as backup and failover (what to do when/if this machine crashes/explodes/is otherwise unavailable).

How to move mail from library back into inbox?

I mistakenly selected 'rebuild' and 6 months worth of mail disappeared from my 'inbox.' I did find it in the library~mail~mailboxes~POP~Inbox~Messages. My question is - How do I move it back into my inbox? I'm nervous I might lose something in the process...

laurasackett, the mail in the inbox for my POP account resides in this location:
Users/Home/Library/Mail/POP account/INBOX.mbox/Messages
I don't know if that is what you are looking for.

Long-time Eudora user, rookie Mail user--have questions, need help!

Hi, all!
As the subject heading says, I've been using Eudora for a very long time (way past its shelf life) and have been playing around with Mail off and on over the past year. (Now, in Eudora's defense, the expiration date on it was a "Best by..." not a "Use by..." date and it's been working fantastically for years! )
I recently started to plunge into Mail more deeply and have a couple of questions.
1. Drafting vs. queuing.
I am used to Eudora's system where a bunch of drafted messages sit in an Outbox. They stay there until I flag QUEUE for the ones I'll eventually be mailing.
It's a good system. A quick look at the flags in the Outobx lets me know which I still to need to work on, and which ones are ready to go out (or need a final review before sending). The user then selects "Send Messages" and it e-mails the ones queued in the Outbox, but not the remaining draft emails that haven't yet been queued.
How do I set up something like that in Mail?
Right now, all I have is a list of draft messages and I cannot tell which ones are still really drafts and which are ready to be sent!
2. Work-around to try and mirror Eudora's system.
I tried creating a new mailbox called Queue, in which I can park the emails I've done editing. Of course, the problem with such a scheme is that when I want to send messages, I either have to put them back into the Drafts mailbox, from where I can select and send everything (including ones I haven't finished editing!), or drag them into Mail's Outbox where they go out instantly. That's a little freaky and I can see disasters happening (emails going out when I'm wanting to drag other messages to a different mailbox).
3. Disable auto-sending?
Is there a way of turning off and on the Outbox's automatic sending action? That could be the simplest solution for me. I'd really like to send messages only via a menu command--yet, from I've determined, Mail's Send menu command will send any messages selected in the Draft mailbox. Again, I see screw-ups with that as the wrong draft could be selected and Mail would send it out.
4. Display of badges for mailboxes.
This is more of a curiosity, but is there a way of having a user-created mailbox show how many e-mails are in there?
Solutions?
What do you all do as to work flow? How do you go about creating and revising a bunch of e-mails, but only sending out certain ones? And ensuring that only the ones you want to go out, go out?!

Thank you for posting all this info. Unfortunately i have no idea how to do flags and how to use a smart mailbox as a place to store emails i am not ready to send. Eudora is vastly superior in all the things it empowers the user to quickly and easily do, in the traditional Apple spirit of intuitiveness, clear direct normal (not esoteric) communicatioin and user friendliness.
about three weeks ago i was pretty much forced into Mountain Lion bcause my old MacBook is barely functioning at all and i got a new MacBook Pro. So, good bye Eudora that i've used since 1995, only because i couldn't find another mail program that did what it does. I wonder why there aren't others. I've tried MailForge, it's a great attempt but it seems to have run out of steam and isn't working well enough.
I am using Mail and Gmail. The result is i'm suffering a whole range of loss of functionality in email, and am not getting a lot of messages, they are here somewhere but i can't always find them, i have to go to my old computer, enduring a kind of freeze where a beachball is a sign of progress, a trackpad that barely works for drag and drop anymore and a battery that needs reaplacing. i think the hard drive is failing. but i still need it to retrieve my email reliably, to a poiint where i see i 'm going to have to put money into it so it can keep working, for email. what a poor solution. I am trying as best i can to have Mail communicate better.
i just wanted to thank you for your encouraging posts and giving me something to follow up on to try to use, to address this one of many loss of Eudora problems. Why wouldn't a mail program give you the option to queue mail? Why take away options and functionality? sorry, i'm just ranting because i've had a very frustrating last few weeks related to numerous new OS challenges, but email is the only really serious one.
I really like your idea of badges to show number of new messages, i think that's what you meant, you didn't say 'new', but another great and helpful thing about Eudroa is sorting mail into mail boxes and opening those mailboxes that get new mail each time you download mail, so you kow what's new. You can immediately see it. In Apple Mail, i find i have to dig through each of the 12 'on my mac' mailboxes/folders i created so far, to see if there is new mail in them. A lot of extra trouble for something that a superior email program can do for you.

HT1267 i've got about 2500 songs on my iphone, i have replaced my computer & lost my library-question is why can't i drag/drop new downloaded music to my iphone without 'syncing' & losing my 2500 songs from the iphone?

I've got about 2500 songs on my iphone, i have recently replaced my computer because the old one crashed, so i lost all the songs in the itunes library. My question is, it seems that now i am unable to drag/drop new downloaded songs without syncing my iphone & losing my 2500 songs from the phone?

You cannot. Iphone will sync/manually manage music with one and only one computer at a time. Syncing/manually managing with another will erase the current content from the iphone.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer. Use your backup copy to put everything back.

Imported photos error message & Pictures Folder in Library question

I've spent today moving my photos from an external drive to iPhoto on my new iMac. I was pretty much successful, except for a few problems, and questions:
I dragged My Pictures folder from the e-drive to iPhoto, copying the pix. Long story short, I stupidly did it a second time a few hours later, causing a duplicate folder for every one I already had in iPhoto. I dragged each dupe folder to the trash, emptying it after every 100 photos or so. I merged some events, deleted some unwanted pix and organized things a bit.
Okay, I thought everything was fine, but the next time I opened iPhoto, I got this message: "3 photos have been found in the iPhoto library that were not imported. Would you like to import them?" I hit "Yes", which brought up this message: "3 Unreadable files - The following files could not be imported...". This added a Recovered Photos folder to "My Albums" in iPhoto. I closed iPhoto, and when I opened it again was presented with the same "...would you like to import them" message. This time I hit "No" and was told the files could be found in my Library in a "Recovered Photos" folder.
I went to Go then to Library and found 2 Recovered Photos folders in "Pictures" in library. I tried to open one and it started Terminal (yikes!). I quickly quit Terminal, hoping I didn't cause my Mac any harm. In the meantime, every time I open iPhoto, I get the same message, along with another Recovered Photos folder in both My Albums in iPhoto and in the Pictures folder in my Library. I now have 6 of these folders in my Library and I'm afraid to go near them. Can I delete them or is that a no-no? (Sorry, I'm an ex-PC user). What can I do to stop that "would I like to import the 3 photos" message every time I open iPhoto?
Also, I know that when I'm ready to backup my photos to the e-drive I'll drag the iPhoto library file from the Library folder directly to the e-drive. But... why are the folders I originally dragged from the e-drive into iPhoto still in my Library folder under "Pictures"? They still have the names I originally gave them when they were on my e-drive, and I've since renamed and merged them in iPhoto. If they've been copied into the official (or whatever it's called) iPhoto library file, then are they dupes? Can I safely delete the old folders or do they serve some kind of purpose?
Thank you in advance,
Sunny (scared to make any mistakes on my new precious machine!)

I dragged My Pictures folder from the e-drive to iPhoto, copying the pix.
That imports your old library into iPhoto and will give you duplicates of all photos and triplicates of modified photos - the way to move your iPhoto library to a new machine is to connect the machines together - via a network or firewire target mode - drag the iPhoto library (if there is one) on the new machine to the desktop and drag the old iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the pictures folder of the new Mac and launching iPhoto on the new machine - there is no importing involved
Long story short, I stupidly did it a second time a few hours later, causing a duplicate folder for every one I already had in iPhoto. I dragged each dupe folder to the trash, emptying it after every 100 photos or so. I merged some events, deleted some unwanted pix and organized things a bit.
Okay, I thought everything was fine, but the next time I opened iPhoto, I got this message: "3 photos have been found in the iPhoto library that were not imported. Would you like to import them?" I hit "Yes", which brought up this message: "3 Unreadable files - The following files could not be imported...". This added a Recovered Photos folder to "My Albums" in iPhoto. I closed iPhoto, and when I opened it again was presented with the same "...would you like to import them" message. This time I hit "No" and was told the files could be found in my Library in a "Recovered Photos" folder.
I went to Go then to Library and found 2 Recovered Photos folders in "Pictures" in library. I tried to open one and it started Terminal (yikes!). I quickly quit Terminal, hoping I didn't cause my Mac any harm. In the meantime, every time I open iPhoto, I get the same message, along with another Recovered Photos folder in both My Albums in iPhoto and in the Pictures folder in my Library. I now have 6 of these folders in my Library and I'm afraid to go near them. Can I delete them or is that a no-no? (Sorry, I'm an ex-PC user). What can I do to stop that "would I like to import the 3 photos" message every time I open iPhoto?
Doing the above procedure will correct this since you are removing the library that has the problem and bringing over a good library
If this ever occurs in the future it is one of the very few times that you should delete something from your iPhoto library - quit iPhoto, right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and select the show package contents command - drag the import (or importing) folder to the desktop and launch iPhoto - the problem will be gone - open the import(ing) folder(s) on your desktop and be sure that there are no photos in there that you want and then delete the folders
Also, I know that when I'm ready to backup my photos to the e-drive I'll drag the iPhoto library file from the Library folder directly to the e-drive. But... why are the folders I originally dragged from the e-drive into iPhoto still in my Library folder under "Pictures"? They still have the names I originally gave them when they were on my e-drive, and I've since renamed and merged them in iPhoto. If they've been copied into the official (or whatever it's called) iPhoto library file, then are they dupes? Can I safely delete the old folders or do they serve some kind of purpose?
When you drag between volumes it copies the files/folders - so to backup you drag the iPhoto library from the pictures folder on your iMac to the external hard drive it will copy it
As to deleting the iphoto library on the e-drive - I suggest you get your iPhoto library totally fixed ad tested on your iMac before deleting any original files or the old iPhoto library
LN

Size of iTunes library question

When I am in iTunes and select library, it give me the total number of songs and the gigabytes (in my case assume around 9500 tracks and 43G). However, when I get info on the iTunes folder in my music folder and get info it shows 100G. Is this right? I am trying to back up my music and it appears it is taking up 100G on my LaCie drive.

What is shown in iTunes is the total for what has actually been added to the iTunes library. What is shown in the folder is what is actually in the folder and not everything in the folder has to also be in the iTunes library.
For example, you can delete songs from the iTunes library but answer NO when it asks you if you want to move the files to the trash/recycle also. If you say no, then the files stay on the hard drive in the folder but are no longer in the iTunes library.
So to answer your question, yes, it is completely possible to have the iTunes library be one size and the iTunes folder to be a completely different size. They are not synchronized together.
Patrick

ITunes library question...

before I got myiPod, I had already imported my entire cd collection in mp3 format via media player...when I got my iPod, I imported these files to the library...my question is, can I re-import these files via itunes in AAC format with itunes automatically replacing these mp3 files with the new AAC file, or do I need to manually delete the mp3 files from the library for this to work..please advise.

Hey JoeViv,
You can conert files inside of iTunesthrough the advanced menu. This article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93123 gives more detailed information on the process.
You will have a second copy but can always delete the MP3 when you are done converting. Changing the view options will make it easiier to grop the file types.
Jason
MBP 2.0, 2GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Add new folder to library question

My wife and I have a VERY LARGE library of music and while still trying to get iTunes situated for our particular use we frequently have files that are manually copied into the music file folder that of course iTunes then has no idea is there unless we add the entire music folder to the library AGAIN which takes forever. Also, I'm concerned that it's adding duplicates when it does this.
If we were just adding a single folder or something at a time I wouldn't be concerned, I could just add that one folder, but the way these files are added it's basically a script that runs that compares another drive to the music folders drive of iTunes, whatever is not there it copies over so it's different files, different folders etc so I can't really just select one folder to add, it's adding the entire folder in iTunes again.
Is there an easier way to do this? Will doing this create duplicates?
Thanks!

After posting that and re-reading I decided to re-write it but my system wouldn't let me save the edit; here's the edit...
My wife and I have a very large collection of music that we have been trying to incorporate into a single library for our laptops to use. I think I have it mostly figured out for sharing a library (found an article about using synctoy in Windows to essentially mirror the libraries from a shared network drive while using the same physical copy of music files on a network drive. This seems to be working so far, but...
In the process I have been moving from having a mirrored copy of music on each laptop (via an external USB drive on each laptop) to consolidating that into one music folder on the networked drive. I've got it just about complete but I ran an xcopy script again to ensure all music files from those drives really made it in entirety to the networked drive AFTER adding folder to library in iTunes. Now of course iTunes doesn't know those new files are there and they are all over the place, not in just one directory.
Now the question, if I select add folder to library in iTunes again selecting the entire music folder so it will pick up those new files, will it create duplicate entries in iTunes? Or should this work ok?
Is there an easier way to do this?

Aperture vs iPhoto library questions

Hello, I am brand new to Aperture from iPhoto. I am moving to Aperture to take advantage of the organization options because I am starting to run out of HD space with my 100 GB iPhoto library. I want to have the option in the near future to switch to referenced masters on an external drive. So my question has to do with the unified library between iPhoto and Aperture. When I upgraded to Aperture, I had to first update iPhoto to the new library format. I then opened my iPhoto library in Aperture. Everything I've read about the unified format has explained that it is compatible with both applications. But I've also read that iPhoto does not work with referenced masters. So, can I use Aperture to convert my iPhoto library to Referenced masters? Or do I need to transfer my photos into a native Aperture library first? And then once I switch to referenced masters, will iPhoto still work with my new library?
Thank you,
Ray

But I've also read that iPhoto does not work with referenced masters.
And then once I switch to referenced masters, will iPhoto still work with my new library?
Ray,
iPhoto can use referenced original master image file, it works well in iPhoto '11. Only, iPhoto has no built-in tools to repair broken references, if referenced files get accidentally moved or changed, so it is not recommended to do this in iPhoto. But since you now want to use Aperture, that will not be a problem. You will be able to repair broken references using Aperture. iPhoto will work well with a referenced Aperture library. I am using it all the time.
So, can I use Aperture to convert my iPhoto library to Referenced masters? Or do I need to transfer my photos into a native Aperture library first?
Yes, that is simple.
Upgrade your iPhoto Library by opening it in the latest iPhoto version, and then use the command "File > Open Library in Aperture". Now Aperture will work with your iPhoto library as an Aperture library. Events will show as Projects in Aperture, albums will still be albums. All keywords and ratings, Faces and Places will transfer.
To switch to referenced masters/originals select the images you want to relocate and use the command "File > Relocate originals".
You may want to read this page of the manual:
Aperture 3 User Manual: Working with Referenced Images
But make a full backup of your libraries before you start to reorganize them and relocate files.
Regards
Léonie
Since you are new to Aperture, the                 User Tips (15) might be helpful:
                 The Well-Trod Path: a Beginner's Guide to how Aperture's major parts inter-relate
                 Keep iPhoto - It May Come in Handy!
                 New to Aperture? Some Considerations when Designing your First Aperture Library
                 How do I access my Photos in Aperture?
and quite a few more

Quick Multiple Library Question.

Hi all,
My wife's iPhoto library is hitting 60gigs. Time to split it up. My goal is to keep only this last year (2011) on her laptop and have years 2001-2010 in a separate library on and external HD. Now this library is ten plus years of cropping, adjusting, tagging, organizing and other heavy editing, so I'm trying to find a way to do this without reimporting the originals and modified folders and setting the whole thing back to square one...
My question is this:
Can I duplicate her existing iPhoto library and then just simply rename it?
I'd move the renamed duplicate to the external HD, then she can just delete years 2001-20010 within the library on her laptop and then delete 2011 pics within the external HD one.
That way all her events and folders and edits stay intact, right?
Thanks in advance,
Derrick

Make sure the external is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Here's one way to do what you want:
1. Quit iPhoto.
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the external drive.
Now you have two full copies of the Library. To choose between them: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
3. On the Internal Library, remove the pics you don't want with you all the time.
Now you have one full library on the external and another smaller sub-set on the Internal.
A couple of comments:
a: Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager
b: When you're removing the unwanted pics from the Internal Library you need to delete them in batches of about 100 or so. Trashing more at one time can cause problems with the database.
c: Remember you need a back up on another disk for that Library on the External.
Regards
TD

I want to change my security questions (that I don't remember) but the recovery mail is misspelled wrong by the server (I can't get the email) how I can change done recovery mail without security questions?

So, yesterday I wanted to buy 2 albums but it was the first buy in this device (I reset mi iPad 2 months ago) so it asked me for my security questions to confirm my identity but since is been a long time since I "used" me security questions I don't remember it so, eventually, I asked for the email to change either my password or my security questions but the email has 2 misspelled letters by a server error instead of being hotmail.com is writted a*******@hormail.clm sop I can't get any email, I already tried changing the mail email and the secondary email but still is the same mail a*******@hormail.clm so how I can change this without my security questions?

Security questions:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
This is also useful:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3463233&olo=email

ICloud photo library question

So I can find hundreds of articles telling me that if you iCloud storage is full, your photos won't sync anymore. But if you have thousands of photos, what will happen in my phone is eventually full?
I mean, I have my "optimize iPhone storage" option turned on, but there will be a maximum right? Or are the optimized versions really that small of size?
Thank you in advance for answering my question.
Rafael

Yeah - I'm not seeing anywhere that it states if there is a maximum of "optimized" photos you can keep on your device. I'm guessing that "optimized" photos must be much like iTunes in the Cloud where you can see all of your music (including what is stored in the cloud), but only the music you have actually downloaded will be on your physical device. So only the "original photos" that the management system have left on your device, or that you have specifically downloaded are actually on your device.
Sorry I'm not 100% on that. I'll see if any of our Photo experts know for certain!
But to answer your question about:
"nowhere it's stated that your oldest/never viewed pictures will be removed from your device" I think this covers that particular question:
How does iCloud Photo Library save space on my device?
If you turn on Optimize [device] Storage, iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your iOS device, so you can make the most of your device's storage and access more photos than ever. iCloud Photo Library stores the original, high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and can keep lightweight, device-optimized versions on each of your devices. As long as you have enough storage, recent photos and videos that you access the most will stay on your device at full resolution.
To turn on Optimize [device] Storage on your device, tap Settings > iCloud > Photos or Settings > Photos & Camera, then select Optimize [device] Storage. You need an Internet connection to access an original photo or video that’s stored only in iCloud.
So, if original photos are the ones that are actually on your device, then it will remove older and least viewed original photos to maximize storage when needed.
This is supported by the paragraph about turning off iCloud Photo Library:
You can turn off iCloud Photo Library for a single iOS device by going to Settings > iCloud > Photos and turning off iCloud Photo Library beta. If you turned on Optimize [device] Storage, you might not be storing all original photos and videos on that device. To download the original photos and videos, select Download and Keep Originals.
If it is off, you do not have access to those photos that are "optimized", so that supports the idea that they actually live in the cloud.
Cheers,
GB

Mail in library question

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for