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onehandle

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5. While you are in Mail, move your cursor to the 'Mailbox' pulldown menu from the menu bar.

Reply to onecent (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 02:37 PM

Jun 2015

- Click on Mailbox, move the cursor down and click on 'New Mailbox'

You should get a dialog box that lets you select the 'Location' where to save the new mailbox.

- Name it (something different from the folders that disappeared, just in case) and save it to ON MY MAC

See if it shows up in your sidebar under ON MY MAC

If it does, at this point I am curious to see if your old folders show up.

If not, try to drag one of the 58 emails to the new folder.

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I have an apple MacBook Pro that is several years old 4 or 5 [View all] onecent Jun 2015 OP

Hopefully it is as simple as this... onehandle Jun 2015 #1

Okay, I put my cursor over both and I don't see Show but I see onecent Jun 2015 #2

The number is a count of unread messages within folders that are within ON MY MAC. onehandle Jun 2015 #3

Ok, here's what happened, it DID give me all 58 onecent Jun 2015 #4

While you are in Mail, move your cursor to the 'Mailbox' pulldown menu from the menu bar. onehandle Jun 2015 #5

I am in mail, I looked for the "mailbox" pulldown menu it is NOT on the menu bar. onecent Jun 2015 #6

Oh I just found the menu...down in the lower left of the screen there is a PLUS I clicked on it onecent Jun 2015 #7

Now this is getting confusing onecent Jun 2015 #8

What version of the Mac OS are you in? onehandle Jun 2015 #9

Thank you so very much for your help today. I have a MAC OS X onecent Jun 2015 #10

I'm using that version, I had it updated to that os last year. arikara Jun 2015 #11

THank you, I think I will have it worked on....I DO NOT want Windows 8 9 or 10...didn't onecent Jun 2015 #12