Overheating iMac

You can selected more than one email in a row to delete at a time by holding down the shift key while clicking on an email To select more than one email when they are not in a row, you hold down both the shift key and I believe, the option key together.

If your iMac is not seeing the system folder when booting up there is two things you can do.

Once booted up, in OS X System Prefernces Pane in the OS X Dock, look for and click on the Startup disk icon.

Your main OS X system should show up in a horizontal window. Clicl this System disc icon once, than at the bottom of the window click on the lock symbol.

Either restart or completely shutdown your iMac as see if it boots to your hard drive much quicker.

If this still doesn't work. hold down the iMac's ppower button for 10 seconds to force power down your iMac.

Wait another 10 seconds then press the power button as normal and immediately hold down the Option key on your keyboard to try and invoke the OS X Startup manager. If your hard drive appears on screen, pick this drive for startup.

you beat me on this posting.

Try my last suggestion.

Cameron,

I think there is a section in Photoshop's Prefernces to limit the amount of available RAM you can allow PS to use.

Just in case PS is just eating up all of your available RAM while you are working.

The lollipopping could be the result of PS just grabbing all of your available RAM and not leaving enough for the system to operate.

You might want to look into that.

With 15k worth of emails, this maybe THE big issue with Mail.

I thin out my Mail app constantly to keep from letting it get out of hand.

As to your startup issues, other things that might work or help

You could try resetting the NVRAM.

Resetting NVRAM / PRAM

1. Shut down your Mac.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.

If this doesn't help, you could try a reset of the SMC (System Management Controller).

1. Shut down the computer.
2. Unplug the computer's power cord.
3. Wait fifteen seconds.
4. Attach the computer's power cord.
5. Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.

Slight correction on thinning out/deleting emails in Apple Mail.

Place the cursor on and click on one message in the list of messages to select it, then use shift-click to select a range of messages, or then use command- click on other messages to select specific (and isolated) messages, then ⌘ Delete