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How to reinstall only Mail on Mountain Lion

Mail freezes and is unable to quit. Only force quit works. Unable to use Mail. How can I reinstall Mail only?

Posted on Sep 1, 2012 12:40 PM

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Sep 1, 2012 1:50 PM in response to glorialis.sanchez

Thomas A Reed Northeast Ohio

Hold down the option key while choosing Library from the Go menu in the Finder. In the window that appears, find the Mail folder and move it to the desktop. Then look in the Preferences folder and move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the desktop. Now try opening Mail and set up all your accounts again from scratch. If that works, you can import any messages that you are missing from the mailboxes found in the old Mail folder on your desktop.


If that doesn't fix it, hold down command-R to enter recovery mode. Repair the hard drive with Disk Utility, then reinstall the system.


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How to reinstall only Mail on Mountain Lion

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