Where's my mailboxes?

I have created several mail boxes under the "On my Mac" heading but I can't see them in the L/H margin under the On My Mac heading so I can't access them.
Where are they please? How do I make them visible?

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT TONY! Many thanks. I was clicking on the actual heading!

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I used a PST converter to convert my PST files to .mbox and imported those into MAC mail but after looking around, mailboxes are stored in the user/library/mail/mailboxes folder but that doesn't exist so I don't know where my imported mailboxes are currently being stored.
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Where are Smart Mailbox settings?

Hello
I set up a large number of Smart Mailboxes on my Macbook and they synced over to my iMac. Now, however, they have disappeared from the Macbook and i am getting a prompt to delete them on the iMac when it tries to sync.
Can anyone tell me where the Smart Mailbox settings are kept so I can copy it and let the sync happen and not have to recreated the whole thing?
Thanks heaps
deb

They are in the /Home/Library/Mail/ folder:
SmartMailboxes.plist
SmartMailboxes.plist.backup
VersionedSmartMailboxes.plist
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HT4867 Now that I've switched to ICloud where are the mailboxes that were stored on my Mac?

Now that I've switched to ICloud where are the mailboxes that were stored on my Mac?

On your mac, mailboxes are listed under one of several categories. Some are "on my mac" and others are in "icloud". Those emails in mailboxes "on my mac" are strictly local, they do not connect with iCloud. As Julian points out, all mailboxes on your mac are still there. They will not be on your other devices.

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I deleted a mailbox because I thought the messages would be saved in the new smart mailbox I had just created. Well that wasn't very smart of me because they didn't stay and now all those messages are gone and I can't find them. I was wondering if anyone knew where these messages went. I had messages back from August in there and where they are imported from only keeps six months worth. Can anyone shed light on if I can get these Messages back?

When deleting a mailbox, the mailbox is deleted from the hard drive after selecting OK at the warning message.
A Smart Mailbox is only a virtual mailbox which contains a pointer to the original message in the originating mailbox only - not a copy of the message. Depending on the Smart Mailbox criteria, it is possible for a particular message to be available in a number of different Smart Mailboxes. Deleting the original message from the originating mailbox for a message that is available in a Smart Mailbox will also remove the message from the Smart Mailbox.
Instead of creating a Smart Mailbox for this purpose, select New Mailbox instead which creates an actual mailbox.
To try to recover the deleted messages will require using a data recovery utility such as FileSalvage with no guarantee and the more you use your computer and access the hard drive, you lesson your chances of recovering this data by any means.
http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1
Also one of the reasons for creating and maintaining a regular backup.

Where are my Mailboxes, and the rest of my Notes ?

I just got a new (Late 2013, Yosemite 10.10.1) 27" iMac to replace my old (Late 2009) 27" iMac. When I started it up the first time I was glad to see that all my contacts were in my Contacts, all my special dates were in my Calendar, all of my Bookmarks were in Safari and all of my Songs and Podcasts were in iTunes.
What I did not see was my Custom Mailboxes and "VIP's" in Mail (Version 8.1), and only some of my notes in Notes (Version 3.1) were there.
Not sure where to go from here ???

Hi Brenden,
Thank you for your response. When I moved over to the new iMac I did not do a migration. I had been having problems with the old iMac, which my local Apple store, after a series of tests, determined to be a software issue. Therefore I did not want bring it over to the new iMac. I have been reinstalling new copies of my non-Apple applications from there original sources and retrieving, only absolutely necessary (i.e. photos and financial info), data from a, Time Machine backed up, external hard drive, folder by folder.
I read the articles that you suggested and found them informative and helpful. In particular the one regarding mailboxes.
Mail (Yosemite): Import or export mailboxes
For my own peace of mind, I called Apple support and with their assistance, walking me through the process, I was able to retrieve the missing Mailboxes. Since I had hooked up my external hard drive to the new iMac and backed it up, I was not able to access the backup data from the old iMac via Time Machine. It would not go back beyond the date of the first backup of the new one, even though the data was there on the hard drive. I double clicked the external hard drive icon on the Desktop to open it and was able to obtain the missing files that way using "Import Mailboxes..." from the File menu in the Mail app.
Thanks again for your reply and assistance,
carlodzf

Where are my mailboxes and mail?

Last night I downloaded OS X 10.8.4 to my iMac and now all of my Mailboxes and mail from yesterday back are not visible. Where can I find them?

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
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This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
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Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
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Where is a mailbox "on my mac" in the finder so I can copy

Running OS 10.6.8 with Mail program on a Mac Mini. On that computer we have a mailbox "On My Mac" in the mail program with old emails going back to 2007, which we want to move and put on a newer laptop (also running 10.6.8).
1. Where is this folder/mailbox in the finder? I would want to copy it to a USB thumb drive to put in the appropriate location on the newer laptop.
Any other suggestions related to my question and plan of action is greatly appreciated.
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Make a new folder with a different name (xxxname2.mbox) and put it all in the new folder, keeping the same structure as you have now. I would try to just move within it all into the new folder. Then make a new mail box in mail and drag it in there. this will be a archive type of thing. Do a back up on this first. Then you should probably create a new mailbox (different name) moving forward.
As I mentioned before, I have always had multiple mail boxes for different customers, uses,... to help organize things, but this should work, as long as the names are different.
The file is larger because (if I understand you) it contains the attachments, with the messages)
Try putting it on a USB and see that you can open it all.
Now you know where to find where your mail is.

Where are Netscape mailboxes?

I am trying to import Netscape mailboxes from an iMac (slot loading) to an Intel Macbook using Mail via a wireless network. The Macbook has OSX v10.4.11. The iMac has OSX v10.3.9.
Where are the Netscape mailboxes located on the iMac?
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-Joe

Kappy,
I have found valid mailboxes at Home:Library:Mozilla:Profiles:Default:65sii1fg.slt:Mail:(popservername) that will import successfully. However, I think I have found the problem. When I imported the inbox and sent mailboxes the imports contained 200+ messages dating from 2005 through part of 2007. Further checking revealed that inbox has 600+ and sent has 400+ messages. I am going to trim this down to about 100 messages each and try again. I'll let you know what happens.
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Where did my mailboxes go?

After moving to ML I cannot find my former mailboxes. Where are the mbox files to import?

They should still be there. Move your cursor down the column on the right side. At each title header the word "show" will appear for hidden mailboxs and "hide" for those not hidden. Click show.

Where are my mailboxes hiding?

In updating to Yosemite the mailboxes I created are no longer visible. However I know they are there because when I do a search for specific mailboxes they show up along with all the mail. How can I view these hidden mailboxes? I would restore from Time Machine, but I get the impression from other forums that that will not solve the problem.

The mailbox list is divided into categories with headings in caps, such as ON MY MAC. When you hover the cursor over one of those headings (except for MAILBOXES), you should see the word Show or Hide on the right. Click Show. The MAILBOXES category can't be hidden.
In each category, the mailboxes are arranged in groups, such as Inbox. To the left of each group is a small disclosure triangle. If the triangle points to the right, click it so that it points down.

Workflow to find out where in whicht mailbox a mail is stored

In 10.9, I used the following workflow in Apple Mail every day:
- Open Apple Mail
- Use the search of Apple Mail.
- Click the desired Mail
- ===> Then i could click in the upper right corner of the chosen mail (see Dropbox Link below)
- Now Apple Mail showed me the chosen mail in the mailbox, and I could easily drop other mails to this mailbox
With 10.10 Yosemite, this feature is not available anymore.
- Why?
- Is there a setting for reactivating this feature?
see
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aelmteokyuwxbuf/Mail.png?dl=0

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Where are Smart Mailboxes stored?

I want to copy over my smart mail boxes from my old 12" PB to my new MBP but cannot find them when asked using "Import Mailboxes" under the File pulldown menu.
TIA
12.PB. (Rev A). & 1.83 GHz MBP Mac OS X (10.4.5)

My impression was that these "smart" mailboxes were virtual. That they presented messages that reside in other mailboxes and that meet some particular filtering criteria. They don't get copied to the smart mailbox, the smart mailbox entries just point at the message in the mailbox in which they reside.
Also, keep in mind that IMAP mail servers, such as that run by Apple for .Mac subscribers, keep their mail on the server. That way if you have multiple computers, say a desktop at home or in the office and a laptop for mobile use, both always see the same messages in the same mailboxes. In this case, you'll never find those messages on your local system 'cause they're not there.
Mailboxes associated with POP3 accounts (more typical for private ISPs, e.g.) are local files and / or directories. And you can always explicitly create a local mailbox. If you copy mail from a server-based IMAP mailbox to such a local mailbox, then the mail will reside on your Mac, of course.
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Where are my mailboxes?

Hi,
I upgraded to Mountain Lion over the weekend, and just looked at Mail for the first time. All my mailbox folders are gone!
I sort my mail into probably 30-40 different folders, which hold over 10 years of mail. I don't see those folders now. Please tell me it did not destroy them?
How do I restore my folders and all that old mail?
Thanks
Bob
edit: Oopps nevermind, I found it! Just had to click the 'Show' on 'On my mac'. Whew!
Bob

Click on the "Show" arrow in the mail tool bar.

HT1444 where are my mailbox folders

I upgraded from Lion to Mt. Lion 10.8.2 and noticed that the personal mailboxes I created were missing. Researching the mailbox help identified going to Time Maching to get previous copies. When I went to Time Machine backups the only history available was for Mt. Lion all my Lion history is gone.

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