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Mail Crashing

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ExtraLife

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Original poster
Mar 11, 2006
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Orange County, California
Hey all! :)

I've come with a problem...Whenever I open up Mail it crashes in a matter of seconds and then the rainbow wheel of death appears.

I have a iMac G5 with Mac OS X 10.4.5. and I have no clue what the problem might be.

Any tips on how to fix it or restart Mail?
 
OK... you looked in both ~/Library/Mail/ and /Library/Mail/, right? :)

Have you disabled any fonts lately? (Or has any fonts become corrupt? You can check this with FontBook.app.)

If not I would try the usual mumbo jumbo™: Restart & Repair Permissions. And also see if Mail starts when logged in to another user account on your Mac (make one if you have to).
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
OK... you looked in both ~/Library/Mail/ and /Library/Mail/, right? :)

Have you disabled any fonts lately? (Or has any fonts become corrupt? You can check this with FontBook.app.)

If not I would try the usual mumbo jumbo™: Restart & Repair Permissions. And also see if Mail starts when logged in to another user account on your Mac (make one if you have to).
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Yeah, I looked in both. I still don't see the bundles folder :confused:

Nope, no fonts have been disabled.

I created another account and mail works fine so I guess it's something wrong with my account. :(

I'll check out Mumbo Jumbo right now and give you the results asap :)
 
ExtraLife said:
I created another account and mail works fine so I guess it's something wrong with my account. :(

I'll check out Mumbo Jumbo right now and give you the results asap :)
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Now could be a good time to try the "Verify Preferences" in MainMenu... but you could also try to remove the file ~/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. The best thing is to just move the file to the desktop or wherever. Then if Mail starts, you've found your culprit. All messages are in ~/Mail/ and should not be affected, but you need to re-enter your account information (for all accounts).

ExtraLife said:
You know what...sorry but how do I do that Mumbo Jumbo deallie?

is it the Disk utility found in Utilities?
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Disk utility will let you repair permission. I prefer the above mentioned MainMenu, though... :)

Edit: Repairing permissions rarely works, but it's fairly quick and harmless to do, and has been known to do the trick every now and then. Corrupt permissions files are a much more common cause of problems (especially when just one app is affected).
 
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