Since installing Mavericks I am experiencing 'flaky' opening. Sometimes Mail opens fine but 75% of the time the application opens but no window is displayed on the screen. I notice a very quick flash in the Dock & Mail does appear as the open application but as I say no window. When I then quit Mail & reopen invariaby so far M<ail open okay. Anyone else experiencing this & any help much appreciated.
Hi Andrew,
Haven't had this trouble with mine. Just wondering is you have the latest Mail update?
Thanks pjb2, I have Version 7.0 (1822) and my apps show last Mail update as screenshot.
Hi Andrew,
don't know thw answer but just reassuring you that you are not seeing things. Having the same issue on two of my Macs. Can't pinpoint the problem though. Have sent feedback on the problem to Apple.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Cheers
Pete
Thanks Pete. I have followed your example and also sent feedback to Apple.
Cheers,
Andrew
When you next have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Select any messages timestamped from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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This is still happening although and others have sent reports, is there any fix yet been found for this problem?
Okay, I have got so frustrated with this problem that I have now gone over to using Airmail! Pity that Apple can not get this sorted out.
Still p….d off with Apple for not seemingly to be able to sort this out, (perhaps they are concentrating too much on getting rid of good applications, ie Aperture). I have tried something that I found elsewhere, (sorry I can not credit who first posted it as I can not now findthe original posting) and so far it seems to work. May be worth trying if you are still having problems:
Shut down Mail.
In Finder, go to "~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/" (just do CMD+Shift+G and paste the path).
Move all "Envelope" files to your desktop.
Restart Mail and let it convert/reindex your mailboxes.
If this worked, Trash the Envelope files file that are on your desktop.
Hope this helps.
Belay last posting, back to not opening first time this morning grrr. I am fed up with sending reports in to Apple so now not doung so anymore on this.
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