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Constant stream of sandboxd Mail error messages in Console

As long as 10.8 Mail app is running - every 30 seconds, I get this error, and I have no idea how to fix it....


Seems like something that should be addressed.



7/26/12 12:54:52.037 AM sandboxd[2273]: ([2271]) Mail(2271) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

Mac Pro (Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 32GB Ram, 480GB SSD, Radeon 5870

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 12:59 AM

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Jul 26, 2012 5:11 AM in response to LB Jeffries

I get this message for lots of things


26/07/2012 13:08:44.996 sandboxd[36062]: ([7294]) Mail(7294) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

26/07/2012 13:10:00.000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(37278) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd

26/07/2012 13:10:00.192 sandboxd[37278]: ([37276]) QuickLookSatelli(37276) deny file-write-create /Users/sean/Library/Caches/com.apple.quicklook.satellite

26/07/2012 13:10:00.806 sandboxd[37278]: ([37276]) QuickLookSatelli(37276) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

26/07/2012 13:10:01.006 sandboxd[37278]: ([37276]) QuickLookSatelli(37276) deny file-write-create /Users/sean/Library/Caches/com.apple.quicklook.satellite

Jul 26, 2012 5:48 AM in response to straccio

Which cache? hHw do you clear it?


I've renamed:


-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 96 30 Apr 22:23 com.apple.mail.plist.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0 30 Apr 22:23 com.apple.mail.plist.lockfile.bak


with .bak on the end and the message has dissapeared. Can't see any issues yet, if I do I'll just rename back...there wasn't much in the .plist file anyway.

Jul 26, 2012 6:04 PM in response to mousersvk

I was seeing this too. In my case it was reporting the error every 2-3 seconds.


I notice that my "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist" was quite old, and clearly came from a previous version of Mail (in my case, perhaps from Mac OS X 10.5 even...)


Is everyone seeing this done an upgrade installation of Mountain Lion?


I renamed the file and the errors stop immediately. I had a look in it, and it doesn't seem to have anything important for current Mail, so I've actually deleted the file. No more errors.

Constant stream of sandboxd Mail error messages in Console

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