My mail preferences suddenly decided they don't want me to make any changes anymore.
I just noticed tonight, but I haven't bothered with any prefs for some time. Probably a few months, so who knows. When I try to access preferences now, I get the little rainbow whirligig and mail is completely locked. I have to force quit Mail.
I can use Mail normally otherwise.
MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
On another thread I found someone suggesting it's a problem with Keychain so I am running Keychain access/Keychain first aid... and now IT is not responding. Sigh.
(later)
So after force quitting keychain first aid Keychain Access would completely hang on open. So what I did was blow away the entire set of keychain plist files and restart keychain. BINGO, worked just fine (had to reenter a password or two) and now mail preferences opens.
On another thread I found someone suggesting it's a problem with Keychain so I am running Keychain access/Keychain first aid... and now IT is not responding. Sigh.
(later)
So after force quitting keychain first aid Keychain Access would completely hang on open. So what I did was blow away the entire set of keychain plist files and restart keychain. BINGO, worked just fine (had to reenter a password or two) and now mail preferences opens.
Can't open mail preferences
