Hi all,
after needlessly suffering for almost a year with Catalina now, I recently decided to not be on the cutting edge of technology any longer and "downgrade" to Mojave on my beloved MBP2015 – or actually UPGRADE, as I'm finally able to once again use so many trusty and beloved 32-bit apps I've been missing so much in Catalina that will never get updated to 64-bit, like the non-subscription version of Rosetta Stone (greedy bastards, same as Adobe with their subscriptions!), Aperture, or many 32-bit games. I don't miss a single new feature introduced in Catalina, especially since I use Spotify instead of Apple Music, so I couldn't care less if iTunes is bloated or not, because I simply don't use it at all.
So everything was absolutely peachy except for the fact that I have many important messages in the Mail app that I flagged to easily find them (with gmail and iCloud IMAP accounts configured), and while the Flagged folder was there alright, and even displayed the badge next to it with the number of all flagged mails, it was completely empty! This drove me nuts. I tried to rebuild all mail boxes, searched high and low and tried numerous suggested solutions from Apple forums and elsewhere, but to no avail.
Until I finally stumbled on the following 3 simple Terminal commands that reset indexing and Spotlight search:
sudo mdutil -Ea
sudo mdutil -ai off
sudo mdutil -ai on
After issuing them and restarting Mail, the Flagged folder got correctly populated with all my flagged mails, and everything works as it should now. Just wanted to share if someone has the same problem.
Unfortunately, I highly doubt it that Apple will ever come to their senses again: First, they release macOS Vista 10.15 with one billion security prompts (the very thing they used to make fun of in one of their brilliant Mac vs. PC spots), and now they decide to make their UI in Big Sur so round, translucent and ugly that I get eye cancer just by looking at it.
So thanks, but no thanks, I'm staying with Mojave forever (i.e. until my MBP2015 dies beyond the point of reparability one day)!
after needlessly suffering for almost a year with Catalina now, I recently decided to not be on the cutting edge of technology any longer and "downgrade" to Mojave on my beloved MBP2015 – or actually UPGRADE, as I'm finally able to once again use so many trusty and beloved 32-bit apps I've been missing so much in Catalina that will never get updated to 64-bit, like the non-subscription version of Rosetta Stone (greedy bastards, same as Adobe with their subscriptions!), Aperture, or many 32-bit games. I don't miss a single new feature introduced in Catalina, especially since I use Spotify instead of Apple Music, so I couldn't care less if iTunes is bloated or not, because I simply don't use it at all.
So everything was absolutely peachy except for the fact that I have many important messages in the Mail app that I flagged to easily find them (with gmail and iCloud IMAP accounts configured), and while the Flagged folder was there alright, and even displayed the badge next to it with the number of all flagged mails, it was completely empty! This drove me nuts. I tried to rebuild all mail boxes, searched high and low and tried numerous suggested solutions from Apple forums and elsewhere, but to no avail.
Until I finally stumbled on the following 3 simple Terminal commands that reset indexing and Spotlight search:
sudo mdutil -Ea
sudo mdutil -ai off
sudo mdutil -ai on
After issuing them and restarting Mail, the Flagged folder got correctly populated with all my flagged mails, and everything works as it should now. Just wanted to share if someone has the same problem.
Unfortunately, I highly doubt it that Apple will ever come to their senses again: First, they release macOS Vista 10.15 with one billion security prompts (the very thing they used to make fun of in one of their brilliant Mac vs. PC spots), and now they decide to make their UI in Big Sur so round, translucent and ugly that I get eye cancer just by looking at it.
So thanks, but no thanks, I'm staying with Mojave forever (i.e. until my MBP2015 dies beyond the point of reparability one day)!
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