Mail crash after migrating data with migrating Migrating Assistant

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Mail crash after migrating data with migrating Migrating Assistant

i used to use Snow Leopard(10.6), and backup frequently with Timemachine.

Yestoday I format and install Mountain Lion, then open Migrating Assistant tool to migrating data from my Timemachine.

after migrating done i open the Mail App, crash; open, crash. and i found several App crash and can NOT be opened, for example Preview.

i have a lot of important mail, How can do i now?

Any of your suggestions are grateful!

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8), iCal problem

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 6:58 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 2, 2012 3:48 PM in response to Jacey New

Me too. Just got my new retina mac book pro and used migration assistant as well. Mail and Preview both crash on launch. If I can't get mail and preview to work, I can't really give up my old machine yet.

J

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Aug 3, 2012 10:17 AM in response to Jacey New

OK I figured it out!

Remove contents of ~/Library/Caches, /Library/Caches and /System/Library/Caches

* Reboot

This worked for me and now mail and other programs that were having issues all work.

Good luck!

J

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Nov 20, 2012 10:25 AM in response to jaltschuler

Hi Jaltschuler!

Can you explain in more detail what you did. Sorry I am not very technical, but having the sample problem with mail and iphoto after the migration from my old macbook pro to my new macbook pro.

Thanks!

Regards,
Greg

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Nov 26, 2012 9:02 AM in response to 51G51

First, show hidden files by opening a terminal and entering in this command:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true

Then using the finder, find the following directories and move to trash any contents of the directories:

~/Library/Caches

/Library/Caches

/System/Library/Caches

Then reboot.

Hope that helps.

Jon

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