Mail inbox not refreshing

I use Apple mail on my imac with Gmail using imap protocol.
It has always worked fine. However, all of a sudden, the inbox messages don't refresh when I click the little envelope refresh button. In order to see new emails, I have to click on another mail folder and then back on my inbox... and there are the new emails.
I have it set to refresh periodically but again, the new emails are only there if I click on another folder and then back to the inbox.
this is very annoying.
Anyone know why this would be happening?
thx

Try rebuilding your Gmail mailbox ....
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It can take a few minutes to re populate your unread mail from the Google server.

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I called an Apple tech and have a solution for the problem stated by the OP and myself:
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Locate your Mail folder via this path - Home/Library/Mail and copy it to the same location on the second machine - when you get the message about overwriting say yes. (make sure Mail is not open on either machine)
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