Can't open new Lion Mail? - Try delete the file "Envelope index"!

This worked perfectly for me!

No luck here. First finder won't open new windows, now mail will launch, but I cannot open the mail window to see messages. I CAN create new messages using option-N, but cannot see my inbox no matter what I try.

How can finder and mail just stop working?! What is up with this Apple??? Could Lion target any more important programs selectively? Fix this!!!!!

YUP,...!!!

THIS WORKED, THANKS!

Hello all. I tried this fix ie removing the smartmailbox .plist files and it did not work for me, it was still stuck upgrading mailboxes - so I then removed all .plist files in the library/mail folder and all sub directories.

The upgrade then completed.

These .plist files often cause problems and can be safely removed because the program will rebuild them if they can't find the originals so no harm done.

Hope this helps.

thanks a lot dnew!

I have no such file apparently.

I'll keep looking.

Took me a while to find these .plist files, but finelly it solved my problem and worked for me 🙂 Thank you very very much!

Great Dnew. Had the same problem, but now everything seem to work.

I had another strange problem though - I couldnt find my library folder, which drew me crazy. I knew very well where it should be, but the folder was gone from my user directory.

I googled that and come up with this solution:

http://www.fixkb.com/2011/08/missing-library-folder-in-mac-os-x-lion.html

The library folder seem to be hidden as default in Lion for some of us, but with the suggested solution my library folder came back :-) , and the plist-files could be removed.

Cheers

It seemed to work, however it also deleted all my achived mails. Anyone knows the solution?

dnew, I owe you big time. thx.

Thank you so much for postng this.. I was going franatic wihtout Mail.. Its so good when someone writes out their solution from Applecare when it is weekend and they are closed...

dnew's solution worked for me first time of asking - many thanks..

Perfect fix. Thank you

Thank you very much. I am grateful for this seemingly simple solution that was out of my reach!