Mail Writing Changes to Disk

Why does my Mail programme keep reverting to 'Writing Changes to disk'? I can't perform any other task in Mail while this is happening. It never used to do it at all, but since re-installing my OS it does it regularly.

Why did you re-install OS X and how did you re-install it - Archive & Install or Erase & Install?
Although your OS detail indicates you are running 10.3.9, after installing Panther if your install disc does not include 10.3.9, did you use Software Update or download the 10.3.9 Combo Update to update your OS to 10.3.9?
Do you have any mailboxes that are significant in size? The recommended size limit for a Jaguar or Panther mailbox is 1GB.
Have you used the Rebuild Mailbox function previously on any mailboxes?
If not, quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Launch Mail and after your account or accounts are checked for new Mail, open "In" in the mailboxes drawer by selecting the black triangle beside it pointing it down to reveal the account named Inbox mailbox or mailboxes if you have multiple accounts.
One at a time, select an account named Inbox mailbox and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox and select Rebuild.
If you have multiple email accounts, repeat for each account's Inbox mailbox and do the same under Sent for each account's Sent mailbox.

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My Mail has been rendered useless since Mavericks upgrade. I have installed the initial patch and the most recent Mavericks update. Same problem persists...
Mail takes forever to load
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I love Mail - but it is useless now. Frustrating.
Most of my mail accounts are Gmail.

I cannot cope with this any longer, I am using a MacBook Pro and the machine is unusable since upgrading to Mavericks. Mail is churning constantly and I cannot do anything else with the machine. Can anyone suggest a new email programme or either on Mac or PC? I am sorry Apple but you have failed me for the final time with this upgrade.

Mail program is CONSTANTLY writing changes to disk, and it bogs EVERYTHING down...

...everytime I open it, it starts redoing this (whatever it is) and it slows things down to a crawl. The other strange issue is when I send an email, esp with an attachment, it stays as a draft, even though it has been sent. Have the latest updates, and have been searching this forum regularly.
Hope they fix this, but in the meantime, any suggestions?
Cheers,
Cameron

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There was an update that was supposed to fix this. It hasn't. Is there some resinstall/delete prefs/stop-start I can do to get this to stop?
This needs to be fixed. I'm leaving for overseas trip and can't be sucking up bandwidth re-downloading 30,000 messages every day. Maybe I should have gmail forward to icloud, then just read icloud? WTH?

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So like many others, Mail is working very slowly with gmail. I even took my iMac to the genius bar, and I was told to just let the Mail program run. That once all the messages were copied to the iMac in All Mail then it would be done. Problem is it does this process every day. While this activity is ongoing it dramatically slows the computer. Here is what the Mail activity window looks like. It greets me each morning when I open it up.
Why does the mail program have to go through that process each day? Basically, I have to drink a cup of coffee and wait until it's done.
I'm surprised Apple would release an update with so many problems in native programs. (My Safari always crashes when I quit but I'll leave that for another day).

I've been having the same issue on my MBP since upgrading to Mavericks. Multiple times per day Mail seems to re-sync everything across my 8 Google Apps accounts (happening right now).
Nothing has resolved the issue, but here's what I've tried:
Verify All Mail settings in Google
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Try with 1 account active versus all 8
And a few other things, I think, that I can't recall. I upgraded to 10.9 the day it was released and it's happened every day since no matter what I do.
Mavericks is great but Mail has some serious issues. I understand that Google has implemented some non-standard IMAP tricks that need to be accounted for, but I don't have any problems on my iPhone (iOS 7) with these exact same accounts -- so someone has it right in some way somewhere.
Attaching a screenshot of what it's doing right now along with the about window.

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I have updated my MacBook Pro (early 2011) to Mavericks and now my IMAP Gmail account on Mail is having a huge endless "Writing changes to disc" on +/- sometimes with up to 50.000 messages, almost freezing my computer all the time! My Inbox, only has aprox 50 messages, I always move mesages to other folders!
Everything just worked fine on Mountain Lion and now my Mac is very slow because of this. Only if I close Mail than I have my Mac back... but I need to work with Mail open, so thats not an option.

I have the same problem. Since installing Mavericks I have a major issue with Apple Mail drastically slowing my whole system down. As others have mentioned, basically Mail takes over the computer and I find myself looking at spinning beach balls for minutes at a time.
From watching the Mail "Activity Window" (accessible from the "Window" menu item), I have discovered that several times a day it starts "Writing changes to disk" (see screenshot) for no apparent reason (it's not as if I have shifted any mailboxes); and that's the time when everything comes to a shuddering halt. It takes a long time, about half an hour or so, to rewrite 27,000 messages (or some other ginormous number, it varies) to disk, and during that time I'm held up. This problem never arose with Mountain Lion.
Basically it seems to me that Mail has been messed up in Mavericks, and Apple needs to fix it.
It was suggested to me by the Apple "Support Advisor" that the fault may lie with Gmail, due to some changes Google have made. But that sounds like it's a cop-out and anyway it's no excuse. Here are two of the biggest companies in the world who are constantly talking with each other about many things. If it's true (unlikely) Apple should be able to communicate with Gmail and get it sorted.

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Over the past couple of weeks, my G3 PowerBook (recently loaded with OSX), when I go to the Mail program, has taken to spending up to a minute at a time Writing Changes to Disk and then Saving Index. Tonight it did it every time I sent a message or accessed a message. It's now impossibly slow, and I can't find any way to stop it doing this every few minutes or with every message. How do I make it stop, or do this less frequently - say, once a day? I only have 400 messages in my Inbox, so I don't think it's overloaded.

Hi again
Select the mailbox you're are having problems with - you can find the Rebuild option under "Mailbox" from the menu at the top of the screen.
You can download a fully functional trial of Cocktail from here
http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/
I should point out I don't work for Maintain or receive payment for recommending Cocktail to other users, it's just my favourite utility =0)

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Hello, I'm new on this forum (just registered)
At first, sorry for my English, I'm Ukrainian, and don't know English well.
When I try to register on this forum with my primary e-mail edio [@] ukr.net , I get a message, that this mail is banned. Can it be fixed?
Because e-mail, that I had entered during registration I use only for my college. This helps me to organise my mail.
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neotuli
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sand_man
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The following Knowledge Base article offers up just how to change your Apple ID for the App Store on your iOS device:
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