Spotlight resurrects deleted emails
I delete on a regular basis certain emails. However, spotlight find the deleted email and they come back to life. Usually when you hold the mouse over the file in spotlight it will tell you the name and path. If you know the path you can delete the file. However, with these resurrected emails there is no path. Please help delete these files.
Presumably that happens because Spotlight is not searching your actual files, but only an index of files that it fails to keep up to date.
Despite what some say, Spotlight is evidently not capable of keeping up.
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Spotlight displaying deleted emails
Spotlight search displays deleted emails. All of them. Followed various suggestions incuding syncing with itunes, powering down and up again, but the messages keep appearing in spotlight results (titles only: if i tap on a deleted email, spotlight takes me to the correct mailbox, but the email is still deleted and no longer visible. How do I delete whatever data spotlight is picking up?
You can't. I opened an Expresslane AppleCare case with Apple about this a few days ago, and they confirmed that this is how it works (maybe just sometimes, who knows). It's the same on my iPad and (I think) on my wife's iPhone.
You need to restore the phone to get rid of it.
I explained how this is really broken... it gives search results that don't actually exist, and it's also a potential privacy invasion (anyone using Spotlight Search on your phone can see who you have emailed, the subject line, and some of the text). And, of course, it makes a real search difficult because actual results are buried in hundreds of fake results.
The support tech really had to twist his words to keep from admitting that this is a bug, but I did get him to agree that it is a broken system. However, there was nothing he could do about it.
It's a bug. Plain and simple, a bug. And it's been in existence for years and years, according to what I've read. -
Stop deleted emails from showing up in Spotlight on iPhone 4s
Has anyone found a way to clear the cache yet from spotlight search on the iPhone? I know you can disable spotlight from bringing up the mail, but if it's turned back on the deleted emails show backup. As the phone is used by multiple people we want to be able to clear everything without doing a factory reset.
I have tried going into settings>general>spotlight search> and unchecking messages and mail so they dont show up in my spotlight search but this could presumably be amended and then back to square. Is there anyway text message can be permanently deleted from the phone?
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When I type a few characters in spotlight, very old emails show up. I clicked it and it opened the mail.app and the email is still there in a freestanding box. I am unable to delete it however. I have tried several things. rebuilding mailbox. deleting and adding the account back into the mail.app. rebuilding spotlight. Nothing. Even in spotlight, when I click on show in finder, select the files, delete them and then empty the trash, they still keep showing up. Isn't it a security flaw that Apple should adress, as it seems is has been going on for quite awhile? Ia there a way to delete them once and for good?
It doesn't have anything to do with the OS.I'm using Mavericks here and I have the same problem.
After I decided to NOT use Mail and deleting all my mail accounts from my mac, spotlight still finds all my emails and open them with no problem with Mail app, even tho it has no accounts and no folders in it. -
Spotlight on Iphone 4 showing deleted emails
When I use spotlight for various searches, it shows email messages which I have already deleted. Although when you select them it takes you to the folder the message was originally stored in, but the message is not there.
The messages are not in any trash folder or deleted messages folder either on the iphone itself or on the server. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's a POP account or IMAP account.
There are also a number of messages which can be read - these seem to be ones that I have written or started to write, but not actually sent (could have been saved as a draft - but again nothing in the draft folders). You get taken to and can read the full email from being selected in spotlight, but is not stored anywhere in my mail folders.
I'm running the latest version of iOS 5.1.
Is there anyway to either reset the spotlight cache, or delete the cache to remove all these "deleted" emails from spotlight. I have searched many forums, but to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
AndyI was able to contact a company that has a similar app as ierase. Now I understand the issue. These programs do overwrite "free space." But, WITHIN various apps, including email, there are files that basically point you to the data by saving a line or two (in the case of emails) in the application itself. This is called a "cache." These files live in the apps, not the free space. It's important because that's how computers know how to "remember" stuff for you so you can search, etc. BIG BUT: iPhone does not allow you to remove the cache or specific items from it. Android phones seem to have this setting. Your computer has this capability. But your iphone does not. The only way to remove information from the cache is to do a complete restore and not back up with iTunes. Puleese tell me if I'm wrong.
Think of it as a file cabinet. The top drawer has the operating system files that don't get touched unless there is an update of the operating system, e.g. to 5.1.1. The second drawer contains all your applications, with subfolders for each one. The subfolders contain a whole lotta flags (often called placeholders). These flags say: go to file drawer 3 and look up such and such. File drawer 3 i is your free space where all the stuff you do is stored. If you go to file drawer 2 and remove the flags, the system doesn't where to look for stuff in file drawer 3. You can add and remove files from drawer 3, or zero out the data, but the flags are still hanging around in drawer 2. You get my drift. I'm so right brained...
This is my basic understanding of why this problem is so widespread. It would be nice if Apple could allow cache editing. -
Spotlight Search showing deleted emails
After loaded IOS6 - now when I do a "Search Iphone" using spotlight search I see emails from my Gmail account that were COMPLETLY deleted over 3 weeks ago (about 10 of them). This occurs even AFTER COMPLETLY cleaning out ALL Gmail folders (which they were when I downloaded the update)
How can I delete from this permanently search? Where could they be "hiding" on the Iphone..... Archive is shut of (and always has been). again ALL MY gmail folders are COMPLETLY empty.
Tried deleting Gmail account from phone and did a power down and reboot AFTER deleting Gmail account from phone too! yes... cleared history & cookies in Safari too.I've been having the same problem with deleted emails showing up in Spotlight on iOS 6.0.2 (iPhone 5) so I did some experiments. (I'm using an IMAP account, not POP, and all my folders are on the server.)
There are actually two different problems (three if you count people who don't check all their account folders so the message is just tucked away in a place they didn't think to look).
The first problem occurs when you compose a message but don't hit Send, then hit Cancel, hit Save Draft, go back to the draft, and send it. Then you go to the Sent folder and delete the message and go to the Trash and delete it there. Now it doesn't show up anywhere in any account folder. But, if you go to Spotlight and search for something in the message, it will appear and you can bring it up and send it again. Mail is obviously squirreling away the draft in a place where it can't be deleted. Nothing short of a backup, reset, and restore will get rid of it.
The second problem occurs when you delete a message from a folder and then go the Trash and delete it there. If you immediately go to Spotlight, you'll see a "ghost" message: it's in Spotlight but if you try to bring it up, you'll find it doesn't really exist and Mail either shows a blank message or shows the account folders. You can get rid of these "ghosts": press the Home button to see the home screen and then double-click the Home button to show the running apps, then press and hold on the Mail icon and click the '-' badge to quit Mail. Then if you go back to Spotlight and search again, they're gone.
So there are two bugs: one serious and one that can be fixed by quitting Mail. And these are caused by real files being kept by Mail so using iErase or Zero Free Space to clear free space (by writing a huge file) has no effect. And, until Apple fixes the serious bug, never, ever, save a draft. (And if you do, you'll have to back up, reset, and restore.) -
Deleted email accounts still searchable in Spotlight...
How can I permanently delete emails from deleted accounts that are still searchable in Spotlight?
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Apple Mail app crashing when deleting emails - just started
I opened up mail a bit ago to sort through my usual clutter of new emails. As I hit delete - Mail crashed, throwing up the typical report box where I can enter what I was doing when the application quit. I just hit the "delete" button.... Ugh.
So I typed that, hit reopen, and began again... after about 5 deleted emails, it did it again... sigh.
So - what might be a good avenue to pursue in correcting this?Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports (not "Diagnostic and Usage Messages") for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report — they're very long and not helpful. -
How do I delete emails form iOS 6
I deleted emails from my servers (i.e. went on gmail and comcast and permentanlty delted emails) however, when I do a spotlight search on my iPhone 5 emails that I deleted (both from the servers and from the phone) appear. I tried to remove the acocunts and all their information but when I put them back on the emails re-appear in the spotlight serach.
Is there a way to delete these emails from my phone? They have been deleted everywhere else and I cannot figure out how to get rid of the ones on the phone.
Thanks.press the edit button on your right top corner and choose the mails and click the trash at your bottom right corner
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How do I permanently delete emails ?
Hi can I permanently delete emails from my iminiipad without having to remove all my settings and data
Even though I am not logged in to my gmail account and have double deleted within gmail, some of my emails appear to be stored on the iPad and comeup when I do a spotlightsearchHi even though my emails are set to delete and not archive, they still seem to show up in the spotlight search.
I also need to get rid of some old emails and other data and was just wondering if there was a way of removing all the data searched on too ?
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I have an ipad version 7.1.2 . I delete emails using my ipad, but I'm still able to find them when searching by name. I can't open them, but they do pop up. How do I stop this and totally delete them?
There is no built in way of removing those from the cache in Spotlight. There may be third party apps that let you clear the cache, if it's that important to you and if you are willing to pay any cost associated with them.
Otherwise, the only way to totally get rid of them would be to restore your iPad as a totally new device and start over again. IMO, that's a bit drastic, but that's up to you. -
How to delete emails once for good?
Hi,
How to permanently delete emails from my account, so they don't show up in the spotlight anymore.
Regards,
MKPrincessforever21 wrote:
Is there an app anybody suggests of app to remove viruses or to clean out bad cookies data safely please answer me what I can do thanks.
You can't get viruses on an iPod (unless traveled from a computer). IF thats the case, Restore your iPod completely OR if you just want to clear cookies do this:
Go to General>>Safari and Clear what you want to clear (look above) PLUS I strongly recommend having the Fraud Warning and Block Pop-Ups ON.
AS FOR DELETING APPS:
Hold on to a random app til all apps are shaking, tap on the X on that app to delelte it from your iPod. If the app shows and the iPod thinks its install but it won't show the X, attempt to get that free app again and then let it fully install then delete it.
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Search is showing deleted emails
The new search feature in 3.0 is displaying deleted emails that have been emptied from the trash. The same emails are not accessible at all from within the Mail program. I thought this was an issue when upgrading the system, but after a complete restore, without copying anything from a backup, the same thing is happening. Any way to permanently delete emails from memory so they do not show in spotlight search?
Recently upgraded to 3.01 and using spotlight search I've noticed the same. Maybe this explains why I'm sure my phone is slowing-up. Spoke to apple tech support today and I was told that the next O.S release will include something to remedy this and make it possible to clear the cache. I was informed they have been trying to resolve this issue and the O.S release is due later this month (Sept 09). The other suggestion given by tech support of restoring as a new phone seems a ridiculous way to sort this out - I'll wait for the new release. Just doing a restore will reload the previous info back on from the backup. Naming/restoring as a new phone will effectively mean there is no backup available to go onto the phone once it is totally erased. Hope this helps and makes sense
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Deleted emails keep coming back since the last big update on my macbook pro
Ever since the update that removed the ability to work with spaces on my mac, I have had issues with deleted emails coming back, even after deleting more than once. Very frustrating.
Side note: I preferred using the spaces function when moving from email to internet to other programs. Not a huge fan of the updated function.Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore is not, in itself, a solution.
First, empty the Trash, if possible.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combinationcommand-C:
find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 \) 2>&- | wc -l | pbcopy
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear.
The output of the command will be a number. It's automatically copied to the Clipboard. Please paste it into a reply.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there. -
After installing Mavericks, deleting emails requires shutting down Mail app.
After I installed Mavericks, I began to notice that whenever I am in my Mail app, deleting an email will result in causing the email to gray out in the list of available emails in my Inbox; trying to open the grayed out email just reveals a blank email window. Only after I quit Mail and then reopen it do the deleted emails disappear from my Inbox. Thanks in advance for any tips to help me fix this!
Step One:
Download and run the combo updater.
OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 (Update (Combo)
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1746
Boot into Recovery drive. Hold down Command R when restarting. Follow the steps here to reset YOUR permissions. (not the same as Disk Utility repair permissions) Then while still booted from recovery drive, open Disk Utility and select Repair Drive and Repair Permissions.
Restart.
Spotlight will reindex your entire drive. Search will not work until this is oomplete.
Open Mail and test.
Step two
If you still see the problem, reindex Mail. Normally, I would start with this step first but what you are describing indicates issues with the base files and permissions.
Go to your User's Library folder. (if you don't know how to find, see this link.)
Scroll to Mail folder.
Select the V2 > MailData folder.
Delete any files in MailData with envelope in the name. (should be 3)
When you open Mail it will re-index your files.
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