Prob. simple question: strange Symbol at Mail folder showing

I have imported some folders into Mail and now one of them is showing a "clock" symbol next to the folder's name. Cannot find this in the helpfiles, maybe someone can give a quick hint on what this symbol means.

It sounds like you're seeing the circular progress indicator. As the task progresses (typically it is syncing with a mail server), the circle will fill up to show how much work is completed and remaining.

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Any idea how to make the new folder directly under the highlighted root?
Thx

If you are in column view a new folder will be created in the selected folder, but if you are using the other views you need to actually open the folder. The path shown at the top of a Finder window will show the target of the window (which is where a new folder will be created).

Strange symbol in Mail

Hi,
Any idea on what the below symbol means? It appears on the inbox on mail with large attachments.

Charles...
You can always check iCloud system status here > Apple - Support - iCloud - System Status
All services are online.
When I search for this App I am unable to find it anywhere on my MacBook.
iCloud is not an app.
Open System Preferences > iCloud. If you haven't setup your iCloud account yet follow the instructions here. Apple - iCloud - Learn how to set up iCloud on all your devices.

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My problem is quite simple but I havent found a way to solve it yet. I want to make my symbol/instances (dont know the difference) transperent. And, when I have a button, I want only the button itself to be clickable not a bit of the white space around.
When I draw something directly in Flash it seems to work fine just as I want it, but I work in paint for the moment and will be using Photoshop too, so then I cant use just Flash's tools.
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When using Photoshop, for example, save your transparent image as a .psd and import it into Flash. I've never had success with copy/paste into flash for transparent images.
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The only items within a mailbox (i.e. within an .mbox or an .imapmbox folder) used by Mail 2.x are Info.plist and the Messages folder. Any other files you may see there (mbox in particular) are almost certainly Mail 1.x files that Mail 2.x leaves there after the conversion. This is poorly explained in Mac OS X 10.4 Mail: Some mailbox files used by Mac OS X 10.3 are not deleted after importing. The article only talks about mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/, but the same can also be said about mailboxes in “POP-”, “IMAP-”, or “Mac-” account folders.
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Junk folder shows 1 message but unable to view or delete it.

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If for a POP type account, using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > this account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account).
Within a POP type account named folder should be mailbox folders with an .mbox extension.
Confirm there is a Junk.mbox named folder and not a Junk named folder.
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Launch Mail and this should resolve the problem.

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http://rfwilmut.net/missing3
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Hi Everyone.
this question requires a fair amount of background -- I tried my usually very helpful users' group and didn't get any responses. Here's the story:
I upgraded my macbook pro to Leopard partly because I thought Time Machine would make me backup more regularly (it has). I have a few sporadic backups from prior to the upgrade, and then I backed up right before I upgraded. I had a disk error during my first attempt at an archive & install, found that the disk was wiped, thanked my lucky stars I backed up beforehand, ran disk utility on the disk, and then did an erase & install instead.
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So, my question is, are those files crucial, or are they cruft from multiple generations of OS updates and mail.app updates that are no longer needed? It seems like no new versions were automatically generated when I removed the old ones, and mail doesn't seem to be broken.
I've been using mail.app at least since 2004 and the emails in the sent mail folder trace back to a Pbook G4 that started with OS X 10.1 (maybe even 10.0 -- my memory isn't as good as it used to be) and was upgraded with each major release, then I migrated to the current MacBook Pro and upgraded it from Tiger to Leopard. So I've probably used the migration assistant (or archive & install) to help me move files (or did it manually) through one laptop changed and four OS upgrades.
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The IMAP is easy. Until you delete it is visible on both phone and computer. Once you delete it is gone from both, although with providers like Google, you can still un-delete it. Google, among others, provides free IMAP email.
For POP, there is a setting in Entourage preferences, (maybe in mail.app, too) that will let you decide to automatically delete the mail from the server, manually delete the mail from the server, or automatically delete after a period of time. I set my pop account to automatically delete from the server after one month. You set up the iPhone the same way - to leave it on the server. This way, a message will download to both your computer and to the iPhone. If you are working at your computer, you can still manually delete the message from the server so that it does not go to your iPhone, since you have already handled it. But even if you never delete from the server, it will automatically delete in a month so that you do not go over your email limit (if any) for your ISP.
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Simple Mail question (couldn't find Mail forum)

Sorry to ask this on iCal forum, but I saw no forums dedicated specifically for regular Mail.
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Probably incredibly simple question, so sorry. I have just changed e-mail after many many years and I want to e-mail everyone in my mac mail client with the new e-mail address at the same time.

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Search function no longer works when Mail folder is encrypted

I posted a reply in another forum that has already been marked as answered...BUT I was not satisfied with the answer...Here is the link to that forum for some context:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6362207&#6362207
And here is basically what I posted there:
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Ahhh! The proverbial missing information. Thanks for clarifying. Apple always has plans to fix problems, but their timetable might not meet your expectations. I strongly suggest that you report this to Apple. Send Feedback and send bug reports and enhancement requests via its Bug Reporter system. To do the latter, join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. The nice thing with this procedure over submitting feedback is that you get a response and a follow-up number; thus, starting a dialog with engineering.

Apple ID - Security Questions and Rescue E-mail

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1) I cannot recall the answers to the security questiosn on Apple ID (do not even recall answerign the questiosn posed there).
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How can I move the ~/Library/Mail folder?

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Prob. simple question: strange Symbol at Mail folder showing

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