Hi-- Am now using v. 2.07 of Mac's Mail app. The problem is, I can't create mailboxes to organize the messages in the inbox. I get this error message: Mailbox Creation Failed: Unable to create path ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/gel.mbox. I've noticed that in Preferences/Accounts/Advanced, The Account Directory is greyed out. Could this part of the problem? I can create Smart Mailboxes, but this isn't really what I want to do. Thanks in advance.
Have you repaired permissions already? If you're not sure how to do it, start Disk Utility (should be in your Applications -> Utilities folder), select your OS X partition and click "Repair Permissions".
Hi rcs, This is usually a permisson issue. Please check your Mailboxes folder under User Folder > LIbrary > Mail , right click on the Mailbox folder and choose 'Get Info'. Under Ownership and Permissions, the correct settings should be You Can: Read & Write. Just change it to the correct setting if this is not correct. Keep us posted.
Hi Babynino-- I really appreciate all your help. Did what you suggested, and Get Info shows that I can read and write. Working on a hunch, I made another admin account, set up Mail and surprise, surprise-- I can create the mailboxes. Now I am tryng to figure out what this is telling me about my original Mail in my original account. RayVi
Problem solved! 1. Went to my original Home Library (prefs, Mail). Temporarily moved 2 files: the Mail plist file and a strange file called Mailboxes that clearly showed Zero bytes. 2. When I opened Mail-- it opened with the set-up routine. Quit. 3. Returned the Mail plist file but not the other one. 4. Opened Mail again: got back to my old mail set-up. Created a new mailbox and voila: it worked. Thanks Patrick and Babynino, for your replies-- they assured me the problem was fixable.
