[DM-MUG] ack! Don't "rebuild" the Drafts folder

[Matthew W.]

I also had this sort of problem back with Mail in one of its early  
incarnations. I had hundreds of messages that were date-labeled with  
the date of the import. Unfortunate, as it was an archive of messages  
I'd sent to people, my wife included, and I'd been using it as a  
pseudo journal.

Perhaps the messages just got corrupted. Leopard is doing a lot more  
with metadata than any previous version so far.

Mw

On Nov 11, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Darcy Baston wrote:

> If you want to preserve the "Last Saved" setting on draft email,  
> like when you need to remember when you started a draft, DO NOT use  
> the 'rebuild' menu item in Mail.app when the Drafts folder is  
> selected. It grabs a bunch of messages and resets them. I can't  
> figure out what its selection criteria was, but not all of them  
> were reset, just  a dozen or so, and I hadn't shift-clicked a bunch  
> or anything.
>
> I wasn't able to move all my mail to my .Mac account by dragging  
> and dropping messages or folders of messages. I kept getting  
> 'cannot move, message contains NUL character' errors on various  
> messages. I don't know what that means. I've moved the same  
> messages to .Mac and back without errors when using Tiger. *sigh*
>
> Darcy
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