Apple Mail and receiving images

[M. Malone]

for some reason when I receive images into my .mac account and I open it through Apple Mail, it starts to lag big time, it gets confused, it can't open the image, it takes way too long and when I try to quit the app it crashes and I have to force quit, it gets so bad now I have to access it over the web to delete the pictures so Apple mail won't crash again, how can I fix this? I have a powerbook g4 with 1 gig of memory...thanks

 

[mad jew]

Is this for all images, just one specific image, or one image type (JPG, BMP or whatever)?

 

[M. Malone]

Is this for all images, just one specific image, or one image type (JPG, BMP or whatever)?

well the only images I receive so far are JPG...

 

[mad jew]

Does it act the same with other attachments? Sorry for all the questions but aside from ridiculously slow .Mac speeds, you shouldn't be having this sort of problem.

 

[M. Malone]

Does it act the same with other attachments? Sorry for all the questions but aside from ridiculously slow .Mac speeds, you shouldn't be having this sort of problem.

no, I don't mind all the questions doctor
well yea, it's only images, I get powerpoint slides, quicktime movies, sound files, and Mail handles them well, it's really weird

 

[mad jew]

Have you modified, moved or deleted Preview from the Applications folder?

If it's not too much hassle, maybe start a new account and see whether Mail is still having troubles there.

 

[M. Malone]

Have you modified, moved or deleted Preview from the Applications folder?

If it's not too much hassle, maybe start a new account and see whether Mail is still having troubles there.

hey Mad Jew, thank you so much, I recall you have also helped me in the past, I really appreciate this! what I did was deleted all the accounts and set them up again, works perfectly, thank you so much

 

[mad jew]

No worries. I'm glad it's all working now.