Mail problem from a Time Machine backup
Hi,
After I restored my wife's MBP with Time Machine, she tried to start 'Mail' and she gets a message:
"Mail needs to import your messages (etc)..."
So when I select 'continue' it shows an absurdly high # 52,847 messages and it gets up to 981 photos and videos, then it stays there for hours. If I cancel, the next time I try it gets to 980, then the next time 979 and so forth, dropping 1 number each time and it always hangs for hours, till I turn it off.
If I try to restore Mail by itself, from the backup, I get a message:
"Mail can't be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OSX."
So in essence she cannot open her Mail program.
What can I do to get the Mail program up and running?
imac, ipod, touch, Mac OS X (10.6.7)