Robert
Thanks for your assistance. I followed your instructions and have a Mail Copy
but Mail itself has opened as before, only the Menu Bar is visible.
Preferences>Accounts was changed to the ISP that I was using up to eighteen
months ago but I have changed it back to the current one and will re-establish
my wife's account when we get this fixed.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Howells" <rhowe...@arach.net.au>
To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 11:19:17 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing /
Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour
On 25/03/2009, at 10:57 AM, ianre...@westnet.com.au wrote:
> I can't use Mail but fortunately have just discovered that I can use
> Westnet directly.So here goes.
>
> My problem is that the Mail window has somehow been minimised
> without its icon appearing on the RH end of the Dock. Clicking Mail
> in Applications or in the Dock brings only the Menu Bar to the
> Desktop. Quit Mail does nothing. Shutting down the computer (2 Ghz
> Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.5.6) is only possible by Force Quit of
> Mail. When it is restarted, Mail is still open but only the Menu Bar
> is available as before.
>
> While vainly searching for the cause and a solution, I discovered
> that the computer, in its wisdom, had cancelled the accounts with
> Westnet and “re-listed” only one of them with an ISP cancelled a
> year or so ago! This has been fixed but Westnet support couldn’t
> help with the Mail problem. They suggested that maybe the computer
> needs servicing.
>
> I have recently run Cocktail so the housekeeping should be OK. The
> Mac is about 15 months old. What do you think?
>
>
> Ian Reid
First question ; have you lost mail that you wished to keep ? To
make sure you keep
what ever is currently on your hard drive go :-
Hard drive - Users - your name user - library - Mail
and do an Apple + D which should produce a " Mail Copy "
Drag that " Mail Copy " out on to your desktop ..
you will possibly need to enter password before it will let you do that
Now , you will have a copy if you lose your Mail while dealing with
Mail accounts .
As for your trouble : Usually the first move is to delete the
Preference file and then reboot .
Go to: Your User - Library - Preferences - com.apple.mail.plist
and drag it out to trash , empty trash , and Restart .
Mail will make a new preference file as it starts up .
Then see what you have !
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