Mail Will Not Open

Tamara,

When you click on the Icon in the Dock, what is seen in the upper left side, in the Menubar, beside the Apple Icon? What Application name?

Are you on 10.4.7, or have you updated but not changed your Profile?

Ernie

Hi Tamara

I would drag the icon from dock

Open Force Quit - Select Mail and click on the Force Quit button

Close all applications and do a Restart

Try starting Mail from the Application folder direct

If it works then drag it to the dock to put the icon back

Chris

Hi Tamara

Mirroragent is the thing that synchronises your mac with idisk - you'd normally see this message about it not quitting if your mac is in the process of syncing.

If you've given it long enough to complete it's task & it still won't force quit, then the only way to stop the process might be be to open Activity Monitor - highlight the mirroragent process & click the Quit Process button, then choose force quit.

I tried restarting but it keeps saying mirroragent
will not quit and go to apple icon and hit force quit
only when i click on the blue apple nothing happens.

Just to be clear the drop down menu under the blue apple does not appear is that correct?

Also if you click and hold the icon in the dock do you see a menu?

What is going on here? Have I broken my computer?
Also I had been having problems with Mail earlier and
in a previous post someone suggested I delete

com.apple.mail.plist. Which I have done? Was this a

bad idea? If I restore that will Mail work again?

No the preferences list should have been remade when Mail started again it would need setting to your requirements but not cause this problem

How much can you do with the machine are other apps working and can you quit them OK

Chris

Hello everyone - never used this before so I don't know quite where it will arrive - BUT, HELP - my Mail program just will not load - I press the icon in the sidebar and it just hops and that's it! I hold the menue open and click 'open' and the same, just one frustrating hop. I did notice yesterday something odd - some mail in had one subject, and then when I opened it, it was the content from another sender. Have updated to 10.4.8 in the last week. My summary comment as simply 'aaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!' - and I have so much in various mailboxes which I need to access on a regular basis.

Any ideas for a new boy who is somewhat challenged tech-wise????

Thanks

DavidI