So, I'm left in a position where I have 70,000 apparently unread messages in my Inbox, a massively bloated Mail library (which has pretty much doubled in size), a slow and unresponsive Mail program. I've also tried the remove-duplicate-messages.scpt made by Jolly Roger ( ***.org/software/), and while it *sometimes* works on individual subfolders on my Mac (but as far as I can tell removes the duplicate in that folder, rather than the newly downloaded version), mostly it doesn't work at all - it creates a 'Remove Duplicate Messages' folder on my desktop, a log inside it and a folder for removed messages, but nothing appears in the duplicates folder. Andreas Amann's Remove Duplicates script doesn't work under Mavericks, and he has abandoned the project. The scripts I'd found for removing duplicates don't work. When I click on those apparently unread messages I can see if they have been replied to or forwarded, etc, but there's no obvious way for me to remove the ones I have already dealt with to the trash, without going through them all manually, which is clearly impossible.Ģ. Mail 'hides' duplicate messages, meaning that all of the messages I've downloaded are showing as unread, and I can't differentiate the ones I already had in my Inbox, and the new downloads. However, I hadn't figured on two things:ġ. The downloading took about 24 hours to complete, and I now have almost 70,000 messages in the inbox of that account. That ought to mean I at least had an archive of the last two years of missing messages, even if I had no record of which ones had been flagged or replied to, etc. The last 2 years worth of emails on that account were still archived on gmail, so last week I decided to try redownloading the whole lot (something like 72,000 messages), and then uplanned to use one of the scripts I was aware of to remove the duplicates to the trash, and then remove any duplicates in the trash forever. Ileft it while I decided what to do, and had time to deal with it. Once I realised I tried to go back to a recent Time Machine back up, but, for whatever reason, that part of the back up hadn't worked properly and I was unable to recover the previous status. 2: How to Use Apple Mail Duplicate Email Remover Software Firstly, Download this Apple Mail Duplicate Email Remover and then install or open this software on your Windows OS After that, add the Mac Mail exported files on the Software panel by clicking Select Folder or Select File option. I decided to rebuild the mailboxes, but afterwards discovered that thousands of messages in the inbox of one of my accounts (and some of the sub-folders) had disappeared. I have no intention of moving to IMAP - I need to keep a local archive of all my mail.Ī few months ago I was having problems with Mail being very slow to load and search emails. I'm running the latest version of Mavericks on a 2010 MBP. I keep all my mail so that I have a permanent record of all conversations, going back more than 10 years - this is about 250,000 emails. My set up is that I use Mail with 5 separate accounts, downloading all messages using POP. I'm having some significant problems with Apple Mail, and despite having researched widely, I haven't been able to find a solution yet.
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