Lost "All Inboxes" in Apple Mail -- any way to get it back?

[Thegreenman]

The solution I found that worked for me was, right click got to view drop down to hide side bar and click the box were back

 

[jzangaro]

ANOTHER OPTION: My problem was, after removing all my favorites and clicking the dropdown - "All Mailboxes" wasn't an option. It's not that it was greyed out - It wasn't there. I almost gave up - but LIGHTBULB: I remembered it appears when I search my mail -- and sure enough, I searched a random word and All Mailboxes appeared on left column, and I right clicked it to add to favorites.

 

[flipin]

Another example of why I love the MacRumors ersatz BBS. Critical info without a lot haughty behavior based on pints given by the Apple Community. Thanks for these quick fixes to a ridiculous problem

 

[Rodan52]

Sure is a common problem, my wife did this yesterday and came to me saying, "I'VE LOST MY ALL INBOXES FOLDER." I think it may have happened at a bad time for her. As I don't use Apple Mail myself I was as puzzled as she was but thanks to this great forum a quick search landed me in this thread and I was able to impress her by fixing it almost instantly. I did tell her I found the answer here, eventually.
So thanks everybody for your helpful advice.👍👌🙂

 

[macplaymates]

Thank you! That is just bad by design if you all have this issue. I would be ashamed as a developer that all my users have this issue already for such long time. But anyway, thanks!

absolutely. true, why would they hide the plus (+) absolutely terrible User interface design. Apple is really dumb sometimes. I've been using Mac OS since 1986 Mac 512K. The best OS design was under Jean-Louis Gassée.

 

[Tribeca]

Late to the thread, BUT FOUND A QUICK EASY SOLUTION.
If this was already mentioned, I apologize for reposting.

All I did was go to the "Search" field in Apple Mail and simply type in "All Mailboxes" and the search revealed the lost All Mailboxes folder in the sidebar! I dragged it down into my "Favorites" and now everything is back to normal.

Running Ventura v13.1 on Mac Studio M1

 

[Mookerchief]

I've encountered the same issue - losing my smart folder which shows all unread emails with no way to get it back. That pesky '+' button keeps disappearing. But I found another solution which might help others.

I did have some other smart mailboxes in place - such as 'Today'. A right click on the name brought up a contextual menu, and the options included 'duplicate' and 'edit'. So I duplicated it, renamed it, and edited it so it became my 'all unread' messages. I repeated that and created 'all inboxes' as well, which I order with the most recent and the unread messages at the top.

 

[Mookerchief]

Hold on... that technique above, duplicate and edit, does not work. The changes you make mess up the original. Use with caution.

 

[ccheatham]

Next to the "Favorites" header in the sidebar tap the + button. You'll see it as an option in the drop-down menu.

Thank you!