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Re: Mail in Lion


  • Subject: Re: Mail in Lion
  • From: Ron Hunsinger <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:17:23 -0700

On Jul 31, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

> Thanks for your responses.
> I wondering if the big-long-name folders all have the same big-long-name.
> OR
> If they differ, do they differ by mail account or by username or by OS installation or something else.
> If anyone sees a pattern here, please let me know.

They're all the same name (at least on my system), as you can verify on your own system using the following Terminal commands:

cd ~/Library/Mail/V2
find . -type d -not -name '*.mbox' | while read d; do
    [[ $(dirname "$d") == *.mbox ]] && echo $(basename "$d") in $(dirname "$d")
done

What that does is list every folder that does not have a .mbox extension but whose parent folder does. If you don't trust your eyeballs to be satisfied that they're all identical, make that:

cd ~/Library/Mail/V2
find . -type d -not -name '*.mbox' | while read d; do
    [[ $(dirname "$d") == *.mbox ]] && basename "$d"
done | sort | uniq

Note that I have a healthy mix of POP, IMAP (including Gmail and MobileMe and one other), and only-on-my-Mac mailboxes on my machine, the IMAP accounts have mailboxes nested inside mailboxes, and they're all laid out this way, so it's not specific to a particular kind of mailbox or account.


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