Aug
22
2008
OS X Mail Messages Erased
This was a first for me, but today when I turned my computer on and opened up Mail, I received some error about the it being messed up and something had to be rebuilt. Don’t remember exactly, cuz I just hit OK and then Mail closed.
When I reopened Mail, all my “mail” was gone! Crap…
I checked the actual mail to see if it was still there: /Users/Me/Library/Mail, and it was all still there. So, Mail the program was messed up somewhere.
A little bit of messing around, and I figured it out.
There’s a file called “Envelope Index” I noticed that there was one a lot larger called “Envelope Index-1″, so I backed up the original and renamed “Envelope Index-1″ to “Envelope Index”. Started Mail back up, and all my mail was back =)
.: Adam