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How to fix Apple Mail

January 31, 2009 | 2 Comments

Today, I experienced my first big bug with Apple Mac OS X 10.5 running on my Mac Book. I’ve used this laptop for a year and 3 months. I can easily tolerate a bug a year and be a very happy user, nonetheless, bugs need fixed.

Today, after turning on the laptop, Mail refused to run. It started, displayed my inboxes and accounts then crashed displaying: “Mail quit unexpectedly, ignore, report or relaunch”. After relaunching, the same thing happened… I reported the issue to Apple but didn’t wait on their answer to try a reboot (a Windows user instinct). The same thing happened all over again.

Finally, I found the solution:

  1. Go to ~/Library
  2. Move the Mail folder mv Mail Mail.old
  3. Run Mail. Everything works. Click Next then Done.
  4. Close Mail
  5. Move the newly created (and almost empty) Mail folder mv Mail Mail.new
  6. Move the original Mail folder back where it was mv Mail.old Mail
  7. Restart Mail and hopefully, everything is fine.

Easy enough and actually a lot less painless than rebooting.

See you in a year for my next Mac OS X bug fix.


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  1. samantha says:
    January 31, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Published a new post: How to fix Apple Mail ( http://tinyurl.com/cyn23r )

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  2. samantha says:
    January 31, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    How I fixed my Apple Mail! Read all about it! http://tinyurl.com/cyn23r. Once again, Google was my friend

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