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"Deleted" e-mails still on hard drive
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Now here's something interesting:
I was looking for a PDF file of a newspaper article that mentioned me. So I typed in my own name into Leo's Spotlight. Found the article. But it also found every single e-mail I've ever sent or received since I first bought my first Mac in early 2006. (This is my second mini, and I moved from the G4 to the 1.83, then from 10.4 to 10.5) E-mails I've deleted from Mail a looooooong time ago, junk mail that was deleted automatically or manually...everything!
WTF? 
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Its not still in the trash can, is it?
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So when you get spotlight to show the containing folder, where is it?
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harddrive name/users/my username/library/mail/mail account name/mail box folders
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So the messages are still in the mail box folder? Not mail's trash? Do they show up in mail when you look in that folder?
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Yes, they've been deleted from Mail a long time ago, yet they still show up in Finder through a spotlight search and can be opened and read with both Mail and Quick Look. And I've only got POP/SMTP account, btw.
Please try it out on yours.
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Sorry - to be clear, they do show up in Mail?
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Strange, I can't explain it!
Anyone else got any ideas?
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Originally Posted by Kar98 
No. They don't.
Have you checked in the Trash mailbox in mail?
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Originally Posted by Parky
Have you checked in the Trash mailbox in mail?
Dude…
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do newly-deleted messages still show up in your library? They could just be leftovers from an old upgrade...
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