Yosemite - could not load internet accounts preference pane - same for icloud - mail not running

Same issue i am facing neither any article's and topics help me out, thanks for the great solution, i also did same and get rid of frustration and tension, its easy for me to add my mail account again and sync it. Thanks its really out of trouble and save time, nice tutorial.

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Mohammad Kalim

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I tried renaming the folder,

/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts

Thanks smarty77 ! This solved my problem, too.

I did one thing different than you. Rather than deleting the V2 folder, I put it back into it's place, and overwrote the newly generated one AFTER successfully opening the Internet Accounts preference pane, and deleting the offending Gmail account.

Doing that solved the problem with the Internet Accounts preference pane, and I didn't lose any email, or have to set up the accounts again. All I had to do was re-enter the password for the Gmail account, and everything worked fine again.

So here is my complete solution, with the help of smarty77's original post. I never would have made it without your solution.

1. Move the V2 folder in ~/Library/Mail/ to the desktop.
2. You can now open the Internet Accounts preference pane in System Preferences.
3. Delete the offending Gmail account.
4. Re-start Mail.
5. Put the V2 folder back in its place, overwriting the new one that the system has generated.
6. Quit and reopen Mail. You will be required to re-enter your email password 2x. Once for the incoming mail, and once for outgoing mail.
7. After that, you will be up and running again, without losing any of your email. And you will still be able to open the Internet Accounts preference pane, problem solved.

Thanks so much Claidheamdanns.I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly for me :-)

You are very welcome. After all the frustration I had with this issue, I'm glad I was able to help someone else.

Oh my goodness! Just for giggles I tried something a little bit different, since my other Mac just started doing the same thing. AND, I found a solution that is the easiest one yet!

1. Close Mail, if it is open (I'm not even sure this step is necessary, but it's what I did, so I put it here).
2. Move the V2 folder in ~/Library/Mail/ to the desktop.
3. Internet Accounts will now be able to open.
4. DON'T need to delete anything, even the offending Gmail account.
5. Move the V2 folder back into ~/Library/Mail/.

That's ALL. You can now go back into Internet Accounts at any time, and you didn't lose any of your email, or any of your settings. Now aren't you proud of yourself?!

Next person who has this problem and would like to be our guinea pig, please try these steps.

1. DON'T close out of Mail.
2. Move the V2 folder in ~/Library/Mail/ to the desktop and then back to the V2 folder in ~/Library/Mail/
3. Try opening Internet Accounts and see if it will open.

Claidheamdanns wrote:

Next person who has this problem and would like to be our guinea pig, please try these steps.

1. DON'T close out of Mail.
2. Move the V2 folder in ~/Library/Mail/ to the desktop and then back to the V2 folder in ~/Library/Mail/
3. Try opening Internet Accounts and see if it will open.

I just tried that but it didn't work

Please, don't anyone else try my guinea pig solution. The one before it works better.

Thanks frogstomper. I tried it this morning, too, and got bad results.

Renaming the folder ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts (or presumably move to Trash) fixed:

Preferences Unable to Open Internet Accounts Pane error on Yosemite (10.10.5).

In my case, "iCloud" would open, however "Internet Accounts" would not open and Preferences displayed an error message.

Note: I had previously moved the following to Trash (note sure if this step was necessary or not, but it didn't resolve the problem)

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetaccounts.plist

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.internetaccounts

Thanks to paddyiyer for documenting.

I had the exact same problem.

In my case Adium app was blocking the process. So I had to quit Adium to be able to open Internet Accounts pref pane.

The problem was my OS X had a problem with Jabber accounts.

I had a similar issue when going to Internet Accounts or iCloud preferences.

Looking in /var/log/system.log I had these error messages:

Nov 18 12:09:20 MacBook-Pro.local accountsd[6066]: CoreData: error: (11) Fatal error. The database at /Users/username/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite is corrupted. SQLite error code:11, 'database disk image is malformed'

Nov 18 12:09:20 MacBook-Pro.local accountsd[6066]: Core Data: error: -executeRequest: encountered exception = Fatal error. The database at /Users/username/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite is corrupted. SQLite error code:11, 'database disk image is malformed' with userInfo = {

NSFilePath = "/Users/username/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite";

NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 11;

}

What I did was remove the file: /Users/<username>/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite, and then it opened up - best of all it remembered all my accounts (I'm guessing from a backup it keeps internally), so once that was done I rebooted to be sure, and things have been OK since.