Did you try Rebuild Mailbox? Also . . .there's a free app named VacuumMail which essentially rebuilds the index of the sqllite database that manages your mail . . .it just executes a couple of terminal commands that do the actual work. On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:02 AM, J. R. Rosen wrote: > BUT... the mail is there, its in... > Users>Library>Mail>Mailboxes > > That's not the problem... in the above folders in my User file these are there, but they're not showing up in the actual Mail program. > > In other words, all the mailboxes are there, but they are empty in the Mail program *BUT* in the User>Library>Mail>Mailboxes, all the mail is in there. > > How do I get Mail to recognize all this mail? ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil