weird mail problem. help if anyone is a master or terminal

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
mail ate my mails. again.





now how do i find where they are??

they can't be simply dead.



the stuff that was in my inbox is not in inbox.



all the other folders are as they should be it seems.



now where t f are they??



i cant sherlock them it seems, at least looking for some of the email addies that were in the inbox i just cant find them anywhere...

they are not in the trash, nor i find that stuff in any other mali folder..







WTF ...



[ 10-21-2002: Message edited by: Mulattabianca ]</p>

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    so far .. in terminal trying to figure what is going on.





    [localhost:Mail/Mailboxes/INBOX] lozen% ls -lia

    total 80

    158161 drwx------ 7 lozen staff 194 Oct 21 20:51 .

    93295 drwx------ 36 lozen staff 1180 Oct 21 20:51 ..

    232984 -rw-rw-rw- 1 lozen staff 6148 Oct 21 19:41 .DS_Store

    233417 drw-r--r-- 3 lozen staff 264 Oct 21 20:26 INBOX.mbox

    232307 -rw-r--r-- 1 lozen staff 219 Oct 21 17:45 Info.plist

    231223 -rw-r--r-- 1 lozen staff 24576 Oct 21 20:51 mbox.SKindex

    231222 -rw-r--r-- 1 lozen staff 36 Oct 21 20:51 table_of_contents





    the problem seems to be that the "158161 drwx------ 7 lozen staff 194 Oct 21 20:51 ." should not be a drw - r - r but a rw - r- r



    also it shows me a mbox file, not folder in finder.

    but if i open it in finder, it tells me there are subfolders. there aren't.

    now WTF has happened?



    how has rw-r-r turned to be a drw-r-r? i didnt change it.



    how can i kake the drw - r- r = rw - r -r ?? dont tell me it's not possible.



    i don0t want to lose those mails ((



    heeelp



    ..
  • Reply 2 of 3
    I swear, I've never seen anyone have as much trouble with Mail as you have.

    [quote]Originally posted by Mulattabianca:

    <strong>the problem seems to be that the "158161 drwx------ 7 lozen staff 194 Oct 21 20:51 ." should not be a drw - r - r but a rw - r- r



    how can i kake the drw - r- r = rw - r -r ?? dont tell me it's not possible.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>No, I think you are a bit confused about this. I'm surprised, though, since you have so much Linux experience.



    In all *nix systems I've used and even in DOS, the '.' file in a directory listing refers to the current directory. So, it *has* to read something like "drwx------" that begins with a d, otherwise it wouldn't be a directory!

    [quote]<strong>also it shows me a mbox file, not folder in finder.

    but if i open it in finder, it tells me there are subfolders. there aren't.

    now WTF has happened?</strong><hr></blockquote>I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but here's an explanation of what an mbox is.



    A '.mbox' file is actually a package. It's a directory that *acts* like a file. In the Terminal, it shows it as a directory because on the lowest level that's exactly what it is. The Finder, however, is more intelligent. It treats the .mbox package as an actual file. So, double-clicking it doesn't spawn a new Finder window -- it tries to open it as a file in Mail.app. If you want to treat it like a directory, though, you can control-click the package from the Finder and choose "show package contents" from the menu.



    "mbox" files are not the only things to do this. There are LOTS of packages on Mac OS X. Most programs and applications are actually packages with the extension ".app" on them (but hidden in the Finder).



    [ 10-21-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
  • Reply 3 of 3
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    ... i saw " mbox " in a wrong place .. and fixed that to inbox.mbox.



    the inbox.mbox did not exist where it should have been ...



    ... ok i blame the macgeneration's for the mess..



    seriously. url me a link to a good and basic unix guide..



    i guess i am figuring now what i have messed .. trying to fix it..

    lets see if i now manage to individuate right what i did wrong..





    <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />
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