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Re: Mail.app problem

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On 12-13-2016 09:13, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink wrote:
> Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/11/16 8:26 PM, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink wrote:
>>> Macbook Pro with 10.11.4 and 16 GB RAM.  I use Mail.app as my mailer
>>> with google mail as my ISP.  I was messing around with it a few months
>>> ago, and managed somehow to erase all the old mail back to last August.
>>>  Last night I was looking for a recent letter from my son and typed his
>>> name into the search box.  All the mail with him back to 2006 popped up.
>>>  So if I click the inbox or Gmail or Google nested inboxes and scroll
>>> the window down to the bottom, it only goes back to last August.  But if
>>> I type a name in the search box, it will scroll back 10 years.  ¿Que
>>> pasa? and how can I fix it back to normal so all the mail for 10 years
>>> shows up in the inbox when I scroll down?  All the old mail is sitting
>>> somewhere on the hard drive.  TIA.
>>>
>>
>> The old emails are likely archived on the Gmail server. You might be
>> able to re-download them from there.
>
> Yeah, I thought of that also and had checked for it by disconnecting my
> Mac from the internet before running that search.  Still pulls up
> messages going back ten years.  I do not have any mail on the Gmail
> server going back more than a few months, at least none that **I** can
> access.  So everything is still on the hard drive.  The two questions
> are where are they and how do I reconfigure it to be continuous like it
> was before I screwed it up?
>

Look at one of the old emails.  Copy a phrase that's not likely to be 
very common.  Then in Terminal

find ~ -type f -exec grep -l "put that phrase here" "{}" \;

This will print the full path of any file containing that phrase.

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Mail.app problem paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2016-12-11 19:26 -0600
  Re: Mail.app problem Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2016-12-12 14:56 -0500
    Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-12 20:02 +0000
    Re: Mail.app problem paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2016-12-13 09:13 -0600
      Re: Mail.app problem "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-13 18:36 -0600
        Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-14 03:33 +0000
        Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 06:09 +0000
          Re: Mail.app problem Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-12-14 12:25 +0000
            Re: Mail.app problem Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-14 15:23 +0000
              Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 04:23 +0000
              Re: Mail.app problem Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-12-15 11:44 +0000
            Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 02:30 +0000
          Re: Mail.app problem Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-15 02:29 +0000
          Re: Mail.app problem "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-12-14 22:29 -0600

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