Vanishing smart mailboxes in Mavericks

After being quite hesitant on installing Mavericks, I upgraded my MacBook and my iMac. However: all my mail stored in the smart mailboxes is unaccessible. This is a real disaster. I tried reading solutions in other posts, but seem not to get it.
So.. what to do??? How do I get my mail archive back....
AV

Thanks, but that is of course the first thing everybody should try - as did I.
After trying out several solutions the Forum suggested, (time machine, reboot, rebuild etc.)  I got stuck and started a chat session with the Dutch Apple support Centre. It turned out that nor time machine, nor the usual solutions worked in the normal way. It took the support centre and me the whole afternoon to solve it.
We went to library, emptied the V2 folder, copied that to the dashboard (for safety)
Then went to time machine, copied the mail folder prior to the Mavericks upgrade.
Then went to mail preferences and copied the mail preferences prior to the Mavericks upgrade
Finally the mail was copied to V2 folder, the preferences were put in right place (library) and I shut down the computer.
By startup, the mail was all there again.
I have a number of mail accounts so it takes up quite a lot of space... that's why it took so long... They looked at my computer from a distance which was very helpful. I am very grateful to the Apple Crew for helping me out so well!! Even though the iMac is rather old, this is a Mavericks Bug so they did not charge me.
Anyway: now I'm set to go on with Mavericks but this was quite stress. Hopefully next versions of Mavericks will have solved this bug.
A. V.

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