Mail Missing After Leopard Upgrade

For some reason, since I upgraded to Leopard, my inbox only goes back 3 months or so with my .mac email.
I have years of mail that was on my computer that isn't there. I just did an upgrade on top of 10.4. How do I get it all back?
Thanks.

Assuming you upgraded from 10.4.11 to 10.5.x then have you tried rebuilding your mailboxes? choose the mailbox you want rebuild and go to Mailbox>Rebuild?
If you have upgraded from an earlier 10.4.xx version you may want to search this discussion group as there are known issues with mailboxes and missing email.

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I just upgraded to Leopard (from OS 10.3) and successfully imported most old messages into Mail. However, there is a gap - I had to rebuild my mailbox three months ago, and now I cannot find any messages from the date of the rebuild until the date I installed Leopard. The mailbox in my Library folder doesn't appear to have the missing messages. Could they be living somewhere else?

Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
Read the info in the topic at the link below, which while written about conversion from 10.3 to 10.4, would also structurally apply to a conversion from 10.3 to 10.5. Sadly, it would appear the conversion process has not been strengthened, although the real fault lies with the condition of the mailboxes prior to Upgrade.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5664866&#5664866
The messages are not lost, but properly converting them for use in Mail 3.0 is a detailed and tedious project. The best thing would be to have used Rebuild on every mailbox prior to the Upgrade, and if you had used mailboxes created in an even earlier version of Mail, to have removed the Leftover file. Of course I recognize it may be too late for that now, so the "devil is in the details"!
Please do not hesitate to ask any and all questions you need to ask to get comfortable with all you may need to do, depending on the number of large and complex mailboxes you had prior to the Upgrade.
Ernie

Missing imported mail folders after Leopard upgrade

After upgrading to Leopard, my previously imported mail folders (from outlook express converted to .mbox) disappeared. I imported again with mixed results. One folder successfully imported but with 2 new but empty folders (at that point I had 3 folders on my mac). I tried to import the second file. It appeared to import, I can see the folder and number of messages but no way to access them. I can't open the folder. I tried it again with the same results. I had no problem accessing the same files prior to the Leopard upgrade. Any suggestions are welcome.
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I have Comcast email, and I never had a junk folder. However, if you did have these folders, go the preview window where you see all of your email accounts - The window that shows all,of your Mailboxes. Tap the Edit button to the right of the Mailboxes heading. See if the folders are in there.
You can also try closing the mail app and resetting the iPad to see if they reappear.
In order to close apps in iOS 7, you have to drag the app up from the multitasking display. Double tap the home button and you will see apps lined up going left to right across the screen. Swipe to get to the app that you want to close and then swipe "up" on the app preview thumbnail to close it.
Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.
BTW, creating a new draft email should make the folder appear again as well.

Mail sick after Leopard upgrade

Hi everyone
I originally added my comments to another thread, but that person's problem has been solved, while mine has not, so I had better post separately.
I had no problems with Mail before I upgraded to Leopard. After I upgraded, Mail wouldn't boot. That turned out to be due to an older copy of Mail still being on my disk, and the Dock and Login Items calling it instead. Deleting the old copy and opening the new copy, so it could run its Leopard setup, fixed that problem. After that, Mail would boot.
However, I was unable to download any mail from my POP server. It worked fine before the upgrade, but wouldn't work after the upgrade. Similar to the other thread, the Activity window would say that messages were being downloaded (and SpamSieve would log them), but they would not appear in my Inbox. Strangely, mailing-list messages etc. filtered to other mailboxes would appear in those other mailboxes.
I have quite a few extra mailboxes. The Leopard upgrade has rearranged them. They used to be listed under the Inbox and Smart Mailboxes (I installed MailTags once, but had problems with it, so I uninstalled it, but the Smart Mailboxes I created remain). The whole hierarchy, from the top of the sidebar, was called "On My Mac".
After the Leopard upgrade, "On My Mac" no longer represents all my mailboxes. It has been shifted down the sidebar, and now only contains my extra mailboxes (mailing lists etc.). My Inbox, Sent, Trash, Junk and Smart Mailboxes are now separate categories to On My Mac, and listed above it. I have no idea if this is relevant or not, but I mention it in case.
Following a suggestion on this forum, I tried rebuilding my Inbox. Mail crashed. It crashes every time I try to Rebuild my Inbox. (Crash log: http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/Mail_rebuild.txt).
After my attempted Rebuild, my Inbox was empty. All my previous messages had disappeared. There are plenty of emix files in my ~/Library/Mail POP account folder, but oddly, they are very old, many from previous years. Yet I only keep a couple of months' emails in my Inbox! None of these recent mails remain.
I have turned off Time Machine, so I won't overwrite my previous backup. (I don't know enough about Time Machine's bevaviour yet to take any chances.) My previous backup shows emix files up to the day I upgraded to Leopard, but double-clicking on them only shows a title and an empty window. (This may be because they are on a separate disk to the Mail app.: I don't know.)
I noticed that the Activity window would get stuck downloading specific mails, so I got onto my ISP's Webmail, and deleted as many mails as I could (some mailing list mails, spam etc.). Rebooting Mail after that, I could download a few mails, but again the Activity window would show Mail stuck on another message (usually in the 50s or 60s: "downloading 52 of 694"). If I delete that message in my Webmail, Mail will get stuck on another message next time I Check Mail. (I tell the Activity window to Stop, and it says it is Stopping, but never finishes. I have to Force Quit to stop it. Is mdworker related to Mail?)
I don't know if these "blocking" messages have anything particular in common. My prefs on my MacBook or my ISP don't exclude messages on the basis of size, format or attachments.
I use SpamSieve, GrowlMail and PGPMail. SpamSieve appears to be working: it logs each message received, even though they don't appear in my Inbox. However, SpamSieve's Growl notifications don't appear. I am unsure if Growl is working with Mail, although it still shows up in the Mail prefs: it is working with Speed Download. PGPMail still shows up in the Prefs and menus, but not in the message windows.
I hope this information is useful. I don't know what to do from here. Thankyou for any help you can offer.

My question hasn't been answered here, but I seem to have found the answer myself, eventually.
I decided to move the GrowlMail and PGPMail mailbundles to the Bundles Disabled folder, plus delete my two remaining MailTags smart mailboxes from when I had MailTags installed, then restart.
Lo and behold, as my old Grannie always said, I could successfully rebuild my Inbox. All my much-regretted previous emails appeared again! It was an emotional reunion.
Then I tried checking mail, and LaB again, several days of mail came pouring in.
Evidently something to do with the mailbundles or old smart mailboxes was getting in the way of Mail function.
I'll try reintroducing each mailbundle. I hope nobody else has this problem, but just in case, I thought I'd better leave my belated solution.

Calendar missing after leopard upgrade

I have 7 different calendars in iCal, but after upgrading to Leopard I'm missing one. I can still see the name of this specific calendar as a .ics file under Libary-Calendars, but it doesn't show when I open iCal. I tried deleting the cache file but this hasn't fixed my problem. TX!

I got the same problem (one missing Calendar) when upgrading from 10.3 to 10.5.
To get it back again, open iCal and drag the calendar file into the "CALENDARS" list (left hand pane). That should do the trick.

More mail misery after Leopard upgrade

Mac mail works well but I am having great problems with my ISP. I have deleted my plist and re entered my BT account. The connection doctor says no problem but when I try to retrieve mail the progress window beneath my mail boxes says receiving 8 mails but nothing appears in the main window.
If I try with my non upgraded powerbook there are no problems but the settings are the same as those on the Leopard computer.
Any advice welcome.

Not for me...I seem to have lost a whole bunch of emails, mostly from the past month or two, in doing an upgrade and transfer from my laptop. At first it looked like the transfer had gone through successfully to my tower. I should have checked more thoroughly and done a backup before then upgrading my iBook. Once I upgraded my iBook I transferred the system back from the tower. Though everything seems to have transfered smoothly, and most of my email messages, preferences and address book is there, mysteriously many messages have just gone missing. Backup, backup, backup!!!!

Mail crashes after Leopard Upgrade

Hi!
I've just upgraded my MBP C2D to Leopard, but when I star Mail and it starts updateing my mail library it crashes, and I've just repaired permissions and now it has erased all my inbox, trash, etc folders, got an idea how to repair this?
Thank you!!!!

i have the identical problem since upgrading to 10.5.1. It is frequently when i am writing an email also. i don't have the past reports. Are those recorded somewhere? If so, i can send them to you.

Mail issues after leopard upgrade.

I upgraded my dual processor G5 tower to Leopard and have been having problems with mail since then.
1. Periodically mail simply fails. The window disappears and then I get an error message that Mail has unexpectedly quit, ignore or restart.
2. When mail checks messages, the spinning wheel icon next to each box is very choppy or stops completely. Sometimes checking mail takes a long time.
Anyone else seen these issues post upgrade? Is there a fix for it?
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Mail Problem After Leopard Upgrade

Upgraded an iMac 20" 2Gig (Intel Chip) 1 gig RAM from Tiger to Leopard. Did an Archive & Install. Mail will not configure. Gets to the outgoing server check & it just hangs.
Entourage works perfectly so I know the settings & ISP are OK.
Reloaded the System again with the same result.
All the latest upgrades were installed.
Won't let me get to accounts... The set up run asks for the info & when it hangs I have to cancel and the app quits.
This one is stumping me...
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Richie
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That did the trick... Really appreciate the help.... You'd think that Apple would post that issue.... It would have saved me a ton of time and aggravation. Thanks again....
Richie

Apple Mail crashes after Leopard upgrade

Hi,
Apple Mail keeps on crashing every time I try to write a message. Here is what I get from report:
Thu Feb 7 15:01:27 2008
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x003e7542, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x20322028, CR3: 0x0136e000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x20322020, EBX: 0x04c86e00, ECX: 0x00be9f92, EDX: 0x00bf61a0
CR2: 0x20322028, EBP: 0x4234bc68, ESI: 0x00bf61a0, EDI: 0x00000002
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x003e7542, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x4234ba78 : 0x12b0e1 (0x455670 0x4234baac 0x133238 0x0)
0x4234bac8 : 0x1a7bed (0x45ea20 0x3e7542 0xe 0x45e1d4)
0x4234bba8 : 0x19e517 (0x4234bbc0 0x115 0x4234bc68 0x3e7542)
0x4234bbb8 : 0x3e7542 (0xe 0x7fff0048 0x10 0x10)
0x4234bc68 : 0xbe9fba (0x4c86e00 0xbf61a0 0x0 0x0)
0x4234bc88 : 0xae74f5 (0x59fe000 0x4 0x4234bcd8 0x1361b0)
0x4234bce8 : 0xae7565 (0x4c48800 0x59fe000 0x2 0x0)
0x4234bd28 : 0xc4e43d (0x4c48800 0x59fe000 0x2 0x0)
0x4234bd48 : 0x612350 (0x4c48800 0x59fe000 0x0 0x0)
0x4234bda8 : 0xc32d85 (0x499e800 0x4afdd00 0x0 0x0)
0x4234be48 : 0xc33724 (0x499e800 0x4af11e8 0x0 0x0)
0x4234bec8 : 0xc33779 (0x499e800 0x0 0x0 0x408ea0)
0x4234bee8 : 0xc2c998 (0x499e800 0x0 0x4234bf18 0xc2ca7c)
0x4234bf18 : 0x41d149 (0x499e800 0x0 0x1 0x19ccc1)
0x4234bf68 : 0x41c2a6 (0x4ace400 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x4234bf98 : 0x41bf88 (0x4aec440 0x0 0x4234bfc8 0x125f51)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass(2.0.0)@0xc4d000->0xc56fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(2.0.0)@0xae1000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.3)@0x60d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.2)@0xaf9000
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice(2.0.0)@0xbe1000->0xbf6fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily(1.5)@0xbc6000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(2.0.0)@0xbcb000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily(1.5)@0xbb8000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(2.0.0)@0xae1000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily(1.5)@0xbc0000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.2)@0xaf9000
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(2.0.0)@0xae1000->0xaf8fff
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI(3.0.3)@0xc29000->0xc3afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x69b000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.3)@0x60d000
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.0.3)@0x60d000->0x634fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9B18
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Wed Oct 31 17:46:22 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro1,1 (Mac-F4208DC8)
Any ideas?
Thanks.

i have the identical problem since upgrading to 10.5.1. It is frequently when i am writing an email also. i don't have the past reports. Are those recorded somewhere? If so, i can send them to you.

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>After installing Lion (intel I-Mac 2g ram). My Microsoft Office 2004 no longer runs.
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I was upset about the YouTube app as well, and my initial impressions were that the Apple YouTube app was better, but after using it a bit I realized the Google YouTube app was actually better. Some of the features are initially not obvious (in this case it was a matter of what I was used to), but they are all there and more. It seems to generally work better too.
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After upgrading from Tiger to Leopard with the default method Mail was the only thing that didn't work. It wouldn't open a Mail window, appeared to be open on the menu bar and in the dock but would not quit from either command. I had to force quit. When I finally got a mail window to appear, all my email profiles and folders appeared in the left hand bar, but nary an email to be seen in any location. I could not send or receive emails. Pretty much dead!
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I got in trouble following the less than adequate instructions from The AppleBlog; inadequate because it didn't say where to move the folders and plist to. My most helpful Apple Tech advised me that I needed to QUIT Mail before dragging ONLY the ~Library>Preferences>com.apple.mail.plist file to my desktop. The two folders need to stay in the Library.
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This process even brought back my mail folders and put all my saved messages back where they were filed. I didn't have to get into my archived messages file after all.
I just wish I could have found this simpler fix online without spending hours searching and reading conflicting suggestions. Maybe this will help someone else fix their problem faster.

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