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Dekimasu

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jan 17, 2008
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Japan
After getting a new MacBook the other day, in the Apple "Mail" program, I am attempting to sync my Inbox and other folders, but consistently come up short on the number of messages being transferred.

I have tried rebuilding the mailbox twice, which has brought the number of missing messages down to about 1% (but including 7 of the 9 things I currently have flagged). I haven't noticed a pattern, but the missing messages are not only the most recent ones (during a search, I found that one important message from February was missing).

Is there some way besides a rebuild to tell the program it needs to check for messages that are missing? My archives and sent message folders are also missing a small number of messages, and it's really frustrating. I'm wondering whether I should just go back to Outlook, which I was fairly used to in its Windows form before picking up this new Mac.
 

Dekimasu

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jan 17, 2008
226
12
Japan
All the messages that aren't transferring seem to share the attribute "Category: None (colored by Outlook 2003 Red flag)," a category which I am also unable to remove from the web version of my e-mail...
 

satcomer

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Feb 19, 2008
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You are starting to notice that Microsoft uses proprietary things in Microsoft Office. Things like flags, highlights and labels will not transfer to s non-Windows version. Sometimes not even between different slightly older versions of Windows Office.

The best practice is not to use flags, highlights & labels when exchanging between systems, just use plain text when emailing too.
 
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