Mail.app tip

I occasionally move a few thousand messages around in Mail.app, and it doesn't always enjoy it. I just ran into a situation where it gave an error moving the messages… but left a copy of each in the destination folder. I did it twice without noticing.

Now I had a folder with over 5,000 messages in it: three copies of each of the 1,820 real messages. (I deleted the source messages, of course!)

The tip: Control-click the message list headers, and check the mysteriously named “Number” column. Each added message has a unique number, and it's sequential, even for duplicates — now you can see them! Click the “#” column, then scroll down looking for the point where the dates stop going up and switch back to that of the first message (say, 2006). Click that message and select the rest of the messages in the folder.

BALETED!

Posted at 2007-10-15 23:27:04 by Richard • Link to Mail.app tip
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