red circle on mail icon in Dock missing

[bettertimes]

Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics), 400 MHz, Memory 1.38GB SDRAM, OS 10.4.11 and OS 9.2.1

Red circle on Mail icon in Dock missing...had it before.

 

[Mal]

I assume you have new email messages for it to report? I posted this in another thread, and it has worked for me and the other user:

Just had to fix this for someone recently. Backup your mail first, then do the following:

Quit Mail.
Open ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/ (you can simply hit Cmd-Shift-G in the Finder and copy/paste that in the box that appears).
Find the file(s) that start with Envelope Index (there were three on my system, but it will vary). Toss them in the Trash.
Reopen Mail.

It will take a while to recreate your mailboxes and reimport the messages, and then you shouldn't see that problem again.

jW

 

[bettertimes]

Don't have this file.

 

[Mal]

Don't have this file.

If you use Mail, then you do have the file. Are you not seeing the Library folder? I detailed exactly how to find it. Try this:

Open Finder.
Hold Option and click on the Go menu, then select Library.
Find the Mail folder.
Post back with the contents of said folder.

jW

 

[bettertimes]

Thanx for being patient.

English.lproj
German.lproj
MailAccounts.plist
Dutch.lproj
Japanese.lproj
French.lproj
fi.lproj
no.lproj
mac.com.tiff
zh_CN.lproj
Italian.lproj
zh_TW.lproj
Spanish.lproj
da.lproj
pt.lproj
ko.lproj
sv.lproj
Mail
com.mac.mailaccounts
AccountTypes