[MlMt] two of every message in Inbox

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-12-05 at 13:04:02 UTC-0500 (Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:04:02 -0600)
Jeff Bullard via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Today MailMate flashed up a dialog that said that my messages are out 
> of sync. It suggested I relaunch MailMate and then reestablish 
> messages from cache.  When I did that, I now have two copies of each 
> message right next to each other in my Inbox.  Can anyone help me 
> remove the redundant copies?

I've never used it, but there's an "Edit->Select Duplicates" menu item 
that looks promising.

> I’m sorry I think a lot of this was due to me trying to experiment 
> with ways to get my tag assignments to sync up across two devices.  I 
> ended up copying the Database.noindex and the Messages folder in my 
> `Library/Application Support/MailMate` folder and that seems to have 
> caused at least some, if not all, of these problems.  I realize the 
> mistake and I won’t try it again.

Yes, there's gremlins hiding in those folders... I'm not entirely sure 
why copying those folders doesn't work, but it doesn't. I believe it is 
related to the UID extended attribute that MM adds to every message file 
for its own tracking.

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Bill Cole
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