Where is my junk folder?

I am using OS 10.7.5 and can't find my junk folder. I know there is an automated system that I inform over time about what I think shoud be junk and I have seen emails that were suggested to me to be junk. But I want to check the folder once in a while to make sure that there is nothing in it that should NOT be junk. I do have two email adresses pooled in my mail, one is my me.com the other a gmail account.
Can anyone help?

Just found the answer in a previous post. In mail preferences select "move emails to junk folder" and the folder appears under "mailboxes" on the left side of the emails. You need to select "show" to see the detailed info there.

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Thanks

There is probably some corruption in one or more of the files used by the junk filter. The following procedure thoroughly gets rid of all those files, so that Mail creates them anew:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/.
3. Locate LSMMap2 and move it to the Trash. This file stores information about what does and doesn't constitute junk, and is what allows the junk filter to learn. Clicking the Reset button in Preferences > Junk Mail also deletes LSMMap2. The file was called just LSMMap in early versions of Mail, delete that as well if you see it.
4. Locate DefaultCounts and move it to the Trash. This file keeps statistics about the number of messages that have been marked as junk, either automatically by the junk filter or manually by the user.
5. Locate MessageRules.plist and/or MessageSorting.plist and move it to the Desktop. This is where Mail stores all the rules, including those used by the junk filter. The former is used by Mail 2.x, the latter by Mail 1.x. There is probably also a MessageRules.plist.backup and/or MessageSorting.plist.backup file there; move it to the Desktop too.
6. Look for the account folders. The name of each account folder starts with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. Open each of the account folders, locate the Junk.mbox or Junk.imapmbox folder within it, and move it to the Trash if present.
7. Go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. Locate any Junk.mbox mailboxes there (their name may include the account name in parenthesis), and move them to the Trash.
Note: Messages in Junk mailboxes with an .mbox suffix are stored locally and will be lost forever as a result of doing steps 6 and 7. If there is a chance that you have legit messages there that you want to preserve, either move the messages to another mailbox in Mail first, or move the Junk.mbox to the Desktop (to be imported back later) instead of to the Trash. Junk mailboxes with an .imapmbox suffix aren't a concern because they are stored on the server and Mail will rebuild them automatically.
8. Open Mail. As a result of removing the rules file, the junk filter will be disabled now. You may want to either tell Mail to go offline immediately after opening it, or shut down the Internet connection before opening Mail, to prevent it from downloading anything until the junk mail filter has been enabled again.
9. Go to Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail, enable junk filtering, and configure it however you wish.
10. Go online again if you went offline in step 8.
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Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

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Hello.
I'm using an IMAP account and have configured Mail to move junk mail to the chosen junk mail folder (junk is not filtered on the server but on my client). Since the junk mail filter is still learning sometimes junk mail is not detected and still goes to the inbox. That's okay.
If I then select that message it is somehow miraculously detected and marked as junk. However, it is not automatically moved to the junk folder but remains in the inbox marked as junk?
Is this desired behaviour? Why is the mail not automatically moved to the junk folder, like it is when I manually mark a mail as junk?
Thanks in advance

I just happened to notice that even mail that is automatically marked as spam/junk remains in my inbox. So I open the inbox folder and there is message that is marked as junk. Only when I manually reset and set the junk status is the message moved to the junk folder.
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Hello All,
I send myself emails occasionally using my @mac.com email address. In the last few days these mails are going to the junk folder rather than to the inbox, which, needless to say, is problematic. There are two observations I can make:
1. In the junk folder, the messages are NOT marked as junk. Their color is black as opposed to the orange for other messages, the junk button (thumb up or down) is indicating them to not be a junk message, and also they are not showing the bar that appears on other messages.
2. When I look at the headers for recent messages I see the following two lines:
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I don't know what CurlyMolly's problem is. But I have a problem with an email that keeps ending up in my Junk folder...
"Mail maintains an internal database of information that helps it detect junk mail. When you mark messages as junk or not junk, Mail updates the junk mail database accordingly and your junk mail filter improves over time. If you change your mind about what is junk mail (for example, you want to receive someone’s messages that you previously specified as junk mail), you need to mark them as not junk."
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Since you haven't had any answer for almost a week, I thought I might give it a shot. This method works for creating a Trash folder; it might work for Junk as well.
See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_how-to-find-your-profile to locate your profile.
Using your File Explorer, go to your profile and the look at the level below that for Mail or ImapMail (depends on whether you use POP or IMAP). Then in whichever folder, find your INBOX. In the same folder, if you have a Junk.msf file, delete it (or rename it Junk.bak). Delete the Junk folder in Trash.
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It is part of mail but if missing you could go to the top and pick mailbox and pick new and name that Junk.

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I have set View-Folders to Unified. This shows single Junk folder with Accounts name as its sub-folders.
The Left side pane listing is somewhat like this:
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- GMAccount1
- GMAccount2
All accounts are IMAP accounts.
I also have Yahoo IMAP account where Junk folder is named as Bulk Mail.
By default thunderbird does not consider it as Junk folder so what I do is:
1) Right click on top-level unified junk folder and go to properties
2) Under "Select the folders to search" I manually add Yahoo accounts Bulk Mail folder.
After adding I expect that, the left hand side listing would become:
Junk
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- GMAccount2
- YahooAccountName
But it does not show YahooAccount as a subfolder. (Even after restarting thunderbird)
But surprisingly, when I click on top level unified junk folder, then it shows the e-mails in "Bulk Mail" in the right hand side pane.
Which means there is a minor display bug which does not display the folders included in Unified folder.
Please let me know if there is right solution or please correct the bug.
Thank you.

I found a solution:
Goto YahooAccount's properties
Junk Settings
Under Destination and Retention
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If it's not really spam, you'll have to change it in some way to look
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In a word NO! several of us are haviing very similar problems, especially since upgrading to 10.4.4.
I got round this by 'training' on JUNK, keep messagges in INBOX instead of sending junk to the junk box, as then I just read all of the messages.
if you read several of the other topics here we are having similar problems.
Something strange is going on but they seem to be denying it.
sorry this is not any more help. but at least you know you are NOT ALONE
Lets hope it gets sorted by somemone soon, instead of saying it is our fault with settings etc.
BTW I am not intending this as inflammatory I am just so frustrated and i have been using my iMac since Oct 2002 and never had these problems before.
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