Wanting to tidy up mail folders

After having has some system problems I have a bit of a nightmare with my mail folders on my Mac. Although my mail is working I have umpteen folders with zillions of files (well 56,000 approx.) and I want to clean the whole thing out. I use GMail iMap as my mail server and all I really want to do is mirror my GMail messages. I have some local folders containing saved messages which I will keep separately and copy them back later. What's the easiest way of starting again with a nice clean ~library/mail folder ?

Check this article for more information.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-security-exception
It is up to you to decide to create an exception or not.
It could just be a misconfiguration of your email provider, but it could also be a malicious site you're trying to connect to.
What site is the cert you get for? Who is the issuer of the cert you get?
See the attached screenshot for instructions.
I'd not create an exception until it's clear what happens.

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I have an edit button in my e mail account but when I press it I don't get the ''get new mailbox' button. How can I create e mail folders? Thanks.

I want to create e mail folders for my goole account. I go to the account and as suggested in the forum i tap on edit. Then instead of getting at the botton a button that says 'new mailbox' i get 2 boxes one red that says delete and one blue that says move. This is on an ipad 2. I have also an ipad 3 and there it does work. I have checked the settings in both ipads and they seem identical to me.
How can I create the foldesr then on teh ipad 2?
Thanks a lot!

You need to be in the mailbox list for the account when you tap edit.
Sounds like you might be trying to do it from insider you Inbox.
Matt

How to make backups of iCloud mail folders

I have a few iCloud Mail folders with saved emails moved from my Inbox and I would like to make a backup of the their content to either my Mac's HD or an esternal drive. I make regular backups of my iCloud Address Book (which I found very helpful when I lost all my contacts when setting up iCloud) and I use Time Machine for the documents I have in the Mac, and now I want to backup the mail folders but cannot figure out how to do it.
Can someone help me, please?

If you are using Time Machine, it should take care of backing up your email.
However, if you want to backup outside of Time Machine there are a couple of ways to go about it. The simplest, butprobably most time-consuming method, is to simply drag each email one by one to a folder on your desktop.
Another method you could use, is to navigate to the mail folder in your library and copy it. You can access your library folder by clicking on the go menu in the Finder, holding down the option key on your keyboard, and selecting library from the list when it appears

Migrating Mail Folders between systems

I have build a new system hardfile and want to migrate my mail folders from my old system to my new system. How do I do this?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== I migrated from one system to another

Firefox doesn't do email, it's a web browser.
If your problem is with Thunderbird, see this forum for support.
[http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/support/]
or this one
[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39]

Import mail folders from Snow Leopard into Lion

Hi,
I've just switched from my MacBook Pro (MAC OS X Snow Leopard) to a new iMac (MAC OS X Lion). On both machines, I've been using Apple Mail.
Now I want to import the Mail folders from the Mail in Snow Leopard to the Mail in Lion. When using FILE > IMPORT FOLDER nothing was imported: Both settings, importing from Apple Mail and importing ".mbox" files, did end in a message saying that the folders could not be imported.
So I figured out how to access the library folder in my user account on lion and pasted all the mailboxes from Snow Leopard to LIBRARY/MAIL/V2/MAILBOXES. After that, I deleted the "envelope" files from LIBRARY/MAIL/V2/MAILDATA. I started Mail and it created the envelope files from scratch. Now I can see the mail folders, but they are all empty! However, when I browse to the mailbox files in the Finder (LIBRARY/MAIL/V2/MAILBOXES), I can see that each mailbox ".mbox" folder has an "Info.plist" and a folder "Messages". Those folders are not emtpy!
How can I get my Mail in Lion to properly display the messages in the folders?
Any comments are welcome! Thanks for your support!!
Regards,
Matthias

Could you please explain the whole process of exporting mail from Snow to Lion. I have been trying for weeks on two diffrent computers and I can not get it to work.
I have moved the library, not sure to delete the envelopes. How do you export the mbox-files ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Can I manage cloud mail folders on iPad?

I want adjust my cloud mail folders from the iPad. How?

you can't do it there. You must log in to www.icloud.com , the mail web-app its' settings in order to do so.
You can not log into this by using the ipad/iphone Safari browser.It must be done from a Mac or PC.

Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost)

Fresh installation of Exchange Server 2013 on Windows Server 2012.
Our first test account cannot access their email via Outlook but can access fine through OWA. The following message appears - "Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize
your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost)" is displayed.
If I turn off cached Exchange mode, setting the email account to not
cache does not resolve the issue and i get a new error message - "Cannot open your default e-mail folders. The file (path\profile name).ost is not an Outlook data file (.ost). Very odd since it creates its own .ost file when you run it for the first
time.
I cleared the appdata local Outlook folder and I tested on a new laptop that has never connected to Outlook, same error message on any system.
Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service is running.
No warning, error or critical messages in the eventlog, it's like the healthiest server alive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I haven't encountered this issue with previous versions of Exchange.

So it looks like a lot of people are having this issue and seeing how Exchange 2013 is still new (relatively to the world) there isn't much data around to answer this. I've spend ALOT of time trying to figure this out.
Here is the answer. :) - No I don't know all but I'm going to try to give you the most reasonable answer to this issue, in a most logical way.
First thing I did when I was troubleshooting this issue is that I ignored Martina Miskovic's suggestion for Step4 http://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj218640(EXCHG.150)because it didn't make sense to me because I was trying to connect
Outlook not outside the LAN but actually inside. However, Martina's suggestion does fix the issue if it's applied in the correct context.
This is where the plot thickens (it's stew). She failed to mention that things like SSL (which I configure practically useless - anyone who ever worked in a business environment where the owner pretty much trusts anyone in the company, otherwise they don't
work there - very good business practice in my eyes btw, can confirm that...) are some sort of fetish with Microsoft lately. Exchange 2013 was no exception.
In exchange 2003, exchange 2007 and exchange 2010 - you could install it and then go to outlook and set it up. And when outlook manual Microsoft Exchange profile would ask you for server name, you would give it and give the name of the person who you setting
up - as long as machine is on the domain, not much more is needed. IT JUST WORKS! :) What a concept, if the person already on premises of the business - GIVE HIM ACCESS. I guess that was too logical for Microsoft. Now if you're off premises you can use things
like OutlookAnywhere - which I might add had their place under that scenario.
In Exchange 2013, the world changed. Ofcourse Microsoft doesn't feel like telling it in a plain english to people - I'm sure there is an article somewhere but I didn't find it. Exchange 2013 does not support direct configuration of Outlook like all of it's
previous versions. Did you jaw drop? Mine did when I realized it. So now when you are asked for your server name in manual outlook set up and you give it Exchange2013.yourdomain.local - it says cannot connect to it. This happens because ALL - INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL connection are now handled via OutlookAnywhere. You can't even disable that feature and have it function the reasonable way.
So now the question still remains - how do you configure outlook. Well under server properties there is this nice section called Outlook anywhere. You have a chance to configure it's External and Internal address. This is another thing that should be logical
but it didn't work that way for me. When I configured the external address different from the internal - it didn't work. So I strongly suggest you get it working with the same internal address first and then ponder how you want to make it work for the outside
users.
Now that you have this set up you have to go to virtual directories and configure the external and internal address there - this is actually what the Step 4 that Martina was refering to has you do.
Both external and internal address are now the same and you think you can configure your outlook manually - think again. One of the most lovely features of Outlook Anywhere, and the reason why I had never used it in the past is that it requires a TRUSTED
certificate.
See so it's not that exchange 2013 requires a trusted certificate - it's that exchange 2013 lacks the feature that was there since Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5.
So it's time for you to install an Active Direction Certificate Authority. Refer to this wonderful article for exact steps - http://careexchange.in/how-to-install-certificate-authority-on-windows-server-2012/
Now even after you do that - it won't work because you have to add the base private key certificate, which you can download now from your internal certsrv site, to Default Domain Policy (AND yes some people claim NEVER mess with the Default Domain Policy,
always make an addition one... it's up to you - I don't see direct harm if you know what you want to accomplish) see this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738131%28v=ws.10%29.aspx if you want to know exact steps.
This is the moment of ZEN! :) Do you feel the excitement? After all it is your first time. Before we get too excited lets first request and then install the certificate to actual Exchange via the gui and assign it to all the services you can (IIS, SMTP and
there is a 3rd - I forgot, but you get the idea).
Now go to your client machine where you have the outlook open, browse to your exchange server via https://exchang2013/ in IE and if you don't get any certificate errors - it's good. If you do run on hte client and the server: gpupdate /force This will refresh
the policy. Don't try to manually install the certificate from Exchange's website on the client. If you wanna do something manually to it to the base certificate from the private key but if you added it to the domain policy you shouldn't have to do it.
Basically the idea is to make sure you have CA and that CA allows you to browse to exchange and you get no cert error and you can look at the cert and see that's from a domain CA.
NOW, you can configure your outlook. EASY grasshoppa - not the manual way. WHY? Cause the automatic way will now work. :) Let it discover that exachange and populate it all - and tell you I'm happy! :)
Open Outlook - BOOM! It works... Was it as good for you as it was for me?
You may ask, why can't I just configure it by manual - you CAN. It's just a nightmare. Go ahead and open the settings of the account that got auto configed... How do you like that server name? It should read something like [email protected]
and if you go to advanced and then connection tab - you'll see Outlook Anywhere is checked as well. Look at the settings - there is the name of the server, FQDN I might add. It's there in 2 places and one has that Mtdd-something:Exchange2013.yourdomain.local.
So what is that GUID in the server name and where does it come from. It's the identity of the user's mailbox so for every user that setting will be different but you can figure it out via the console on the Exchange server itself - if you wish.
Also a note, if your SSL certs have any trouble - it will just act like outlook can't connect to the exchange server even though it just declines the connection cause the cert/cert authority is not trusted.
So in short Outlook Anywhere is EVERYWHERE! And it has barely any gui or config and you just supposed to magically know that kind of generic error messages mean what... Server names are now GUIDs of the [email protected] - THAT MAKES PERFECT
SENSE MICROSOFT! ...and you have to manage certs... and the only place where you gonna find the name of the server is inside the d*** Outlook Anywhere settings in the config tab, un it's own config button - CAN WE PUT THE CONFIG ANY FURTHER!
Frustrating beyond reason - that should be Exchange's new slogan...
Hope this will help people in the future and won't get delete because it's bad PR for Microsoft.
PS
ALSO if you want to pick a fight with me about how SSL is more secure... I don't wanna hear it - go somewhere else...

Is there a better way to sort mail folders?

Is there a way to sort mail folders the way I want them rather than alphabetical?

Sumo23 wrote:
Is there a way to sort mail folders the way I want them rather than alphabetical?
no.

How to Import Apple Mail Folders on Second User Account

I purchased a new MBP after the old one failed. At the Apple Store I set up a User ID for the new MBP. I then used the Migration utility later on to bring in all my data from my late MBP. This included all my Mail folders. Now I want to get a selection of those Mail Folders to the New User ID. I have tried exporting a folder to a USB flash drive, told Apple Mail to import it in the new ID but without success. Is there another way to get the selected mail folders over to the new ID? Currently I have way too much mail on the old migrated ID. I have been running DupeZap to try and reduce the duplicate messages but that's another story. I just want to get the good folders (no duplicates) over to the new User ID. I seem to recall that back with Tiger you could use a drop box or public folder to pull files/data from one user ID to another. Is this still possible or is there another option I can try?
Thanks for advice and guidance.

If both system are using the IMAP mail provider all you have to do is setup the connection to the mail server and all the emails and folders will be copied down to the windows computer. That is what IMAP is for. The mail stays on the server, and can be store
on the local computer also, and when you connect to the server with another device, computer, phone or pad, all the mail with folders gets copied to the other device.
But I think some of your mail was gotten using POP so it is not longer on the server.
Or you have emails in local folder only and they would be on the server. But you can create folder on the server in one mail program, or on the mail web interface and then copy those emails into those folder on the server byt copying them in one of the email
programs. Then when you log on with the other device all of them will be downloaded to the other device.
Other alternative:- You can find various solutions on having a google search
for your problem. Or you can have a look at the following link: Apple mail to Outlook Windows

"Rules will only be run on items in mail folders"

"Rules will only be run on items in mail folders"
I have a client that is trying to create rules in Outlook and she is the owner of a shared mailbox. Whenever she creates a rule for either one of the mailboxes she is also getting the "Rules will only be run on items in mail folders" error message and the
rules will not run. Previous rules did run Monday, but stopped on Tuesday.
The user deleted the rules and attempted to recreate them, but received the same error message. I noted the previous posts, copied the questions and answered them. Hope this helps.
1. How were the rules created? Was it created from Outlook or OWA or any 3rd party tool?
Created in Outlook, not in OWA or a 3rd party application.
2. Are these rules server side rules or client side rules
They are created client side and saved server side. Exchange Server is 2010.
3. Are these rules set for public folders or folders under mailbox
Rules are on a mailbox that the user owns and on a separate mailbox that the user has owner control on.
4. Were these rules working before?
The rules worked on Monday 11/19/2012, but stopped working the next day. The last software updates were on 11/15/2012
I also ran a repair on MS Office and the error message still comes up.

This thread is old but I thought I would add the information I have learned.
This problem all revolves around the option
“Enable Rules on all RSS Feeds”.
You have to check that in order to run any rules against RSS downloads but when you do, you get that message.
The option makes Outlook process the RSS Feeds folder which it normally skips (like Calendar,
Contacts, etc) and the RSS messages coming in. Although the RSS items look like regular Outlook e-mails, they are different and they are normally ignored unless that option is enabled. Because of those two
things, you get the pop-up message – which is not an error - it’s telling you that it’s can’t process non-mail folders and messages. You can usually fix it by setting your RSS Feeds to download into a SUB-FOLDER of the RSS Feeds folder.
Outlook actually want’s it that way and makes it hard to specify the root “RSS Feeds”.
You will still get the message less often but it will have a checkbox with, “Do not show this message again”.
Check that option because it’s just informative. and you should be all set.
I did the testing for this on Outlook 2007 not using Exchange. If someone else finds a situation where this doesn't apply or work, poke around non-mail folders and see why Outlook is processing them.

Mail folders in Library are a Mess!

1) I have a G5 and a G4 laptop both with the same Mail POP accounts set up in Mac Mail of each computer. The only way I have found to sync the two is manually (I do have .mac I don't use it as I have never figured out the syncing) - I go through the same manual process with regular folders as well as with mailboxes in the Library folder under Mail.
2) I literally transfer the .emix messages from one computer to another and checking the dates they were created helps me to identify which ones I move.
3) I keep track of all of this in my head and it has basically all worked up until recently when it seems to be getting the better of me. When I rebuild my mailboxes on the laptop they no longer seem to contain all the messages I need or they appear but say "download from server"
4) Also, when I push the Sent Mail airplane icon on the G5, it takes about 3 minutes for my messages to appear and I have 29, 714. What I don't understand is where they are stored. The ones which appear in the mail Application I cannot find as .emix messages. And in the Mail folder(in Library) in SENT in Messages it says there are 118, 398. So why can't I see all these in the Mail app.
5) My question is - what do I do now and how do I sync in the future. Would Smart Mailboxes help me - I can't figure out how?
6) And last - I have 4 duplicates of each message - so how do I get rid of these (maybe this why I have 118,000) . I have Duplicate annihilator and it doesn't work - I think it would take 3 weeks for it to go through them all..
Any help would be much appreciated...

1) In my desktop Mail app I have 3 pop accounts set up and including my .mac account which is set up as a POP - does this make any sense? I want all 3 of these accounts synced - is this possible?
You cannot sync POP account mailboxes with the server. Received messages with a POP account are downloaded from the server by the email client used to access the account. The account settings in Mail and with other email clients such as the Mail.app provide for removing received messages from the server when downloaded but the account's Inbox mailbox in Mail or with any email client is not and cannot be synchronized with the server. Synchronization with the server is available with a .Mac type or IMAP account with Mail or as an IMAP account with other email clients.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostOfficeProtocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP
To utilize the IMAP account sync function with the server requires accessing your .Mac account as either a .Mac type account or as an IMAP account with Mail. To change the account type for the account will require deleting and then recreating the account in Mail selecting .Mac or IMAP as the account type when recreating the account.
Before deleting the account, create an "On My Mac" location mailbox in Mail - one to be used for the account's Inbox messages and one for the account's Sent messages. At the menu bar go to Mailbox and select New Mailbox. Since you are accessing POP accounts only with Mail at the present time, "On My Mac" will be the only location choice available. Enter a name for the mailbox and select OK. Repeat for the additional mailbox or mailboxes.
Transfer/move messages from your .Mac account's Inbox mailbox to the user created mailbox designated for the account's Inbox messages and do the same for the account's Sent messages.
When deleting an account with Mail, the account's mailboxes in Mail are also deleted at the time.
2) When I turn on the Sync with mac options - it works for my address book but not for my mail accounts?
Don't confuse the two sync functions - really 3 different sync functions available with a .Mac account.
1) .Mac or IMAP account access with Mail and/or with IMAP account access with other email clients such as Mail on your Mac or on a different computer.
2) Syncing Bookmarks, Calendars, Contacts, Keychains, Mail Accounts (Mail account information only) and Mail rules, signatures and smart mailboxes. This provides for keeping the same information available and kept synchronized with multiple Macs. I also have an old TiBook G4 and all this information is kept synchronized for me on both Macs.
3) Keeping iDisk storage information synchronized.
All 3 are different and separate functions.
3) And what I don't understand is that nowhere does it say it will sync my folders/mailboxes - simply my account settings, rules etc...
True because what is says is all that it does. You cannot keep the mailboxes for different email accounts or user created "On My Mac" location mailboxes in Mail (which are stored locally on the hard drive) kept synchronized with the .Mac account server. You can keep .Mac account server stored mailboxes synchronized with the server only.
4) I bought SyncTogether which is a syncing software only to realize that it wouldn't sync my MAIL FOLDERS/MAILBOXES ( like SENT MAIL and the dozen or other folders I have) - it does the same as .mac sync and syncs simply the settings and accounts and smart mailboxes which I don't understand how to use...
Sounds like you wasted money on software for features included with a .Mac account.
5) I separate all my incoming mail into folders/mailboxes and then either have rules sort it or sort it myself..I need my mailboxes and I need to be able to access them from both my macs...I never use the online .mac mail - I just use it from my desktop -
When accessing a .Mac account as a .Mac type or IMAP account with Mail, you can also create server stored mailboxes for the account with Mail. When creating a new mailbox with Mail, you will also have the account name to choose from as a location choice (in addition to "On My Mac") when creating a mailbox. You can choose .Mac account location (server stored) mailboxes for your rule criteria.
You can also move/transfer existing "On My Mac" location mailboxes to the server.
After deleting and then recreating your .Mac account as a .Mac or IMAP account with Mail, you will also have a .Mac account icon in the mailboxes drawer. This is for server stored mailboxes with the exception of the account's server stored Inbox mailbox which will be located and remains under Inbox in the mailboxes drawer.
When creating a server stored mailbox for your .Mac account, it will be created and located under your .Mac account named icon in the mailboxes drawer. You can select/drag an existing user created "On My Mac" location mailbox under your .Mac account named icon in the mailboxes drawer which will copy the mailbox and contents within to the server.
All account mailboxes under your .Mac account icon in the mailboxes drawer in addition to the account's Inbox mailbox under Inbox in the mailboxes drawer will be available and kept synchronized automatically with Mail on both Macs and when accessing the account as an IMAP account with another email client on your Mac or on a different computer.
I access my .Mac account as a .Mac type account with Mail on my Mac and as an IMAP account with Outlook Express on my PC notebook running Windows XP at work. All server stored account mailboxes including any user created server stored mailboxes created with Mail or with OE are available and kept synchronized automatically with both email clients and all server stored mailboxes are also available when accessing the account via webmail using a browser. Any server stored mailboxes created via webmail access will also be available with Mail.
5A) Should I be creating Smartmailboxes instead of Mailboxes? From what I could understand, this won't really help me as it just virtual.
Smart Mailboxes will not help in this regard. Smart Mailboxes are virtual mailboxes only but any new Smart Mailbox created with Mail on one Mac will also be available with Mail on the other Mac automatically as part of the .Mac sync function for Mail Rules, Signatures and Smart Mailboxes.
6) and last - how do I upload to my .mac account? Is syncing through .mac different than Idisk - where does Idisk come in?
First part of this question already answered - select and drag an existing "On My Mac" location mailbox to/under your .Mac account named icon in the mailboxes drawer which will copy the mailbox and messages within to the server.
Think of iDisk as a separate server stored hard drive which includes .Mac account server stored mailboxes and messages which go against your total available iDisk storage space. Check .Mac account Help on the server when logged in to your .Mac account via webmail access using a browser or search the Help function locally on your hard drive.
7) Thought I was finished but - one more question - .mac sync only has a certain amount of storage on it - is the only way I can have all my stuff in sync to spend lots of money on more storage space...I have thousands of messages in my mailboxes...so what do I have to archive those somewhere? And how do I do it?
A .Mac email account has a default amount of server storage space allocated which you can change/adjust. You have 1 GB total iDisk server storage space available to you as part of a .Mac account which includes email account storage.
I have 120 MB of storage space allocated to my .Mac account but I can allocate more or less as I need and see fit but this goes against your total 1 GB of total iDisk storage space available.
Since I have 120 MB allocated to my .Mac account, this leaves me 880 MB of iDisk storage space available for other such as for Apple's Backup software to keep backup data stored on the server, iWeb for iWeb created websites and for your .Mac account Public folder which you can use to place large files, etc. for others to access and download which are too large to send via email.
You probably don't need to store every single message that you received and sent not deleted on the server so at some point you may need to decide which messages need to remain on the server and if you want to keep all messages on the server, you will need to purchase additional .Mac server storage space when you exceed 1 GB total for everything stored on your iDisk combined.
When I reach my allocated 120 MB, I transfer received messages that I want to keep but no longer need on the server from the account's Inbox mailbox to a user created "On My Mac" location mailbox. This process stores the transferred messages locally on the hard drive AND also removes the messages from the server at the same time.
Log in to your .Mac account via Safari and check your .Mac account preferences there. I believe it is under the same area as your billing information, etc. where you can adjust your total 1 GB iDisk storage space between email and iDisk up or down.

HT201320 Can I create a new folder in my mail folders i.e. new folder called "Work"?

I want to create a folder within my mail folders that are already there. Can I create a folder and give it a name like "work" so I can move related messages to that folder?

Assuming you are using an IMAP or Exchange account (not POP): Open the Mail box list to the account in question, tap Edit (upper right of list), then NewMailbox (lower right of list)

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I have an iMac and I use apple mail with 2 mail accounts (plus iCloud). In the older account I have many saved mail folders that I want to either migrate to iCloud or my other new account. Can this be done? If so, how?
Thanks I hope!

Export or save the messages in OE to a set of eml files in some folder in Explorer. Next, create a folder in TB under Local Folders, then drag the eml files from the Explorer folder and drop them in the TB folder.

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Thank you for your reply Don, but I had already gone through that procedure and it will only create new mailboxes for received mail. I want to create new mailboxes for sent mail, i.e. the first column being "to" not "from". Under the Mailbox menus there is an option "Use This Mailbox For" but all the options under that (including Sent) are greyed out. Unfortunately the View/Columns option to change from "From" to "To" changes all mailboxes not just the active one.

Can I use Unix symbolic links between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard Mail folders?

After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I partitioned my iMac HD to have two partitions: Macintosh HD has Mountain Lion; I reinstalled Snow Leopard on Macintosh HD 2. Best part: you can access your user-created files from EITHER disk partition. But not so OS X Mail. I wanted to revert to Snow Leopard, since I don't like the iOS-like Mountain Lion (swipe THIS!), but Mail is a problem since all my Snow Leopard Mail was successfully migrated over to Mountain Lion during upgrade.
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My guess is that while I am in ML or SL and not the other, there are all sorts of changes to files and the system freaks and says "Oh, now look at what a mess I've made — there are all sorts of files unaccounted for. Now I have to rebuild the whole thing."
I have 2 had drives in my Mac, both 500GB. One (Working Disk) has no operating system and all my files, and the other drive is partitioned 470/30gb with SL on the 470 and ML in the 30. When I restart in either OS, the auto-start Indexing as if for the very first time, and do both hard drives (in total: 3 partitions of files, not counting the ML Restore partition).
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