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Mail Preferences takes 10 - 120 seconds to open

OSX Apple Mail Preferences takes 10 - 120 seconds to open when Accounts is selected. If General or anything other than Accounts is selected it's as quick as can be.

5 imaps, 1 pop and 1 inactive pop

Repaired Permissions 5x

Verify Disk OK

Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5

Memory 20 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB

Software OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac12,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 20 GB

Boot ROM Version: IM121.0047.B1E

SMC Version (system): 1.71f22

Serial Number (system): C0*******HJF

Hardware UUID: 274F724D-3A05-5775-AAD6-C8C7537328EB

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 65gb SSD, 2tb HDD

Posted on Oct 20, 2013 5:29 AM

16 replies

Dec 22, 2013 3:20 PM in response to Tony Baczynski

Further info...

Keychain Access also took a long time to open up. Once open, I found over 18,000! certificates from com.apple.ubiquity.peer-uuid & com.apple.ubiquity.ssl-cert. 18,000!

I removed those, kept all the passwords and it snaps open with no delay as does the Mail Prefs Accounts.

How 18,000 got in there and what they were for is beyond me.

Mail Preferences takes 10 - 120 seconds to open

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