Re: force quit?

2002-11-20 Thread Amber Rhea
On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 01:40 AM, (G-Books) wrote: I'm not sure about the file structure used by Mail since I haven't used it. I would be tempted to suggest you remove the preference file, don't throw it a way, just move it out of the Library/Preferences directory, in your home

Re: force quit?

2002-11-20 Thread Donald Keenan
Why does moving the preference file help? I occasionally have problems with OS 10.1.5 Mail app (annoying messages about mailboxes being locked, etc) and an Applecare tech guy suggested doing this, but I don't get why. For me, it didn't work. Thanks, Donald On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at

Re: force quit?

2002-11-20 Thread Laurent Daudelin
. At that point, the application, if it doesn't crash, might be loss in some kind of endless loop, trying to get at non-existent or faked values. If you force quit, sometimes it just makes things worst if the application was updating that file. It can be left with even more bogus values. When you

force quit?

2002-11-18 Thread Amber Rhea
As I posted a few days ago, lately I have been having to force quit OS X Mail a lot, due to randomly getting the incessant spinning beachball which will not stop, and the application will not respond to any keystrokes. No one replied to my post to offer any suggestions as to why Mail is suddenly

Re: force quit?

2002-11-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 18/11/02 22:40, Amber Rhea at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I posted a few days ago, lately I have been having to force quit OS X Mail a lot, due to randomly getting the incessant spinning beachball which will not stop, and the application will not respond to any keystrokes. No one replied