Mail under Mountain Lion is painfully slow / unusable

Hi,

Unfortunately for me, this fix didn't work. Any other ideas?

Thanks!

Slightly different twist, here.

Same symptoms - slow, unusable Mail. I do not have iCloud setup, but have Soocial to sync my contacts across various devices.

I tried to apply the suggested fix, but since I do not have iCloud, I simply renamed my Applications Support folder for the Address Book to "old Address Book" restarted my MBA and now works perfectly without any other operation.

The AB was (and still is) completely populated, but it cannot have been rebuilt by Soocial (1200+ records)

Go figure, but problem solved, happy camper again!

Thanks, sdpate. I had the same problem and your post led me in the right direction.

Hi.

I have the same problem. Mail is really slow!!

I tried looking for Address Book at Application Support and it does not exist!!

Any ideas on what I can do?

Thanks!

Make sure to go use Option Go to get to the Library folder. I didn't know that and couldn't find it for quite a while.

yeah, good point - select "Go" and then type "~/Library" otherwise you won't see it (it's a hidden folder)

Check your SMTP settings

Had the same issue. Go to the SMTP server settings and uncheck "Use SSL". My system was re-checking it automatically so I had to click on "Use custom port" enter 587 there and uncheck "Use SSL"

Hope this helps.

I've tried this several times but the old Address Book file keeps coming back after I restart, even though every application is closed. When I try emptying Trash the file called AddressBook-v22.abcddb won't delete as a message saying it is in use comes up, even though all applications are closed. What is this file and what's using it?

try a force delete by holding down ALT and then clicking the empty button

You should also repair your disk permissions

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Thanks for this. I've tried both to no avail.

do you have time machine back ups? are your addresses backed up to the icloud?

actually before we go any further can you please relay to me exactly what your issue is again.

one thing you could do is to is to export your address book to a safe location.

then delete verything in your address book.

repair permissions

restart

open up contacts and import the address book from your save file.

Make sure to delete the entire folder "Address Book" in home library/application support. The whole thing has to go.

See the steps I posted here: After Lion upgrade, my addressbook does not work++

It may work. Note there are also addressbook-v22.abcddb files in each subfolder of the Sources folder. You may need to remove those, also.

Thanks for replying. The trouble is that it deletes and goes to trash. When I try to empty trash I get a message saying it won't delete addressbook-v22.abcddb as it's in use, even though there are no other applications running. When I restart the computer the whole file is back in place in library. How can I force it to delete the file or find out what it's in use with?

I must say my faith in Apple has been reduced by all this.

Two things come to mind. First, have you turned off contacts in the iCloud systems preferences?

Second, I think you can force delete something by moving it to the trash while holding down the option key.

Good luck. I understand how frustrated you are. I was that way until I got this to work for myself.