Ugraded to Tiger and all my mail disappeared!

vastphoto · Aug 25th, 2005, 01:02 PM

Has anyone come across this? I just upgraded from Panther to Tiger. Everything runs fine except for the fact that when I launch Mail all my emails are gone! All my accounts are intact and all my mail folders are present but no mail inside. Please help

Vexel · Aug 25th, 2005, 02:03 PM

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guzzi guy · Aug 25th, 2005, 02:05 PM

There is a Mail/Bundles/ folder somewhere. Delete that and mail will start loading all your emails. It happened to me, and I googled it and I found that it is a very common problem when upgrading to Tiger. I just deleted the whole folder, not just the contents. Chuck it, but don't empty the trash until you get it all working.

vastphoto · Aug 25th, 2005, 02:57 PM

Thanks, I tried ditching the Bundels folder but still nothing. Whats even stranger is that I can't delete mail. When select an email and click delete it disappears but if I click out of the folder and back into it again the email is back!?!

I'm on a 1.5Ghz G4 Powerbook with 1Gig of ram

AppleAuthority · Aug 25th, 2005, 04:10 PM

Are you using the HTTPMail plugin by any chance?

MACSPECTRUM · Aug 27th, 2005, 05:44 AM

did you backup/clone prior to upgrading?

guytoronto · Aug 27th, 2005, 04:58 PM

Happened to me. I have my mail archived on 2 machines, so I wasn't too worried. I had everything, I mean EVERYTHING backed up.

Tried to import my mail twice. It would import the mailboxes, but none of my old settings or e-mails. Finally gave up.