Mail freezes while attaching file in Maverick

Problem: When I attempt to attach a file in Mail it freezes and is not reponsive. It requires me to force quit the program.
Background: I just upgraded to OS X Maverick yesterday (10-24). Prior to this upgrade I did not have this problem. Mail ran great! The specific file I was attempting to attach was a 3.5MB video (Apple Quicktime MP4) file. I also attempted to attached a 3k txt file and it also froze the program. This happens each and every time I try no matter which e-mail account I am on.
Specs: Mac Pro Workstation, 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 6GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Can anyone suggest a fix? Thank you.

jde, I found some advice on other threads.  I am posting this here in case it can help you or anyone else.
I disabled (unclicked) saving mail to the servers in the Mail Account preferences for all of my different accounts. I went into internet preferences (in system preferences) and made sure all account were enabled (you may have to approve the passwords being sent despite the security warning... the window said I would have to re-enter the passwords, but I did not have to do so). And then in Terminal I typed the following:
defaults delete com.apple.mail ColorQuoterColorList
In my case it said not found, but I deleted the "ColorQuoterColorList" part and it seemed to work. I hope this helps. Mail seems to be working for now, and even seems a bit snappier.
Regarding Safari, I found advice to go through and clear out various PlugIns from the User Library Internet PlugIns folder and the System Library Plugins folder. I cleared out the old plugins that seem barely to be used, and updated some of the others, and this has seemed to help. Safari is now responsive. I saved all Plugins to folders on my desktop just to be sure I was not dumping something I might want to use. (I assume you know how to get into your user Library... hold down the option key while you click on the "Go" menu in the finder to see it).

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