Booted up and Mail asks me to create a new account

Booted up and Mail asks me to create a new account. It's as if I had never had a mail account before. I have had this one operating for years, and all of a sudden it needs me to enter all the info I have for multiple email accounts.

Thank you Airmail...this got me a little way toward a solution but is a bit over my head! (not techy here).
Since my address book looks fine, I followed the "lost/corrupt" directions. I located the pref file and see several "mail.account" lines there (a server and identity for each email address??)
The next sentence in the instructions confused me. If I DO find mail.accounts, what then? Do I need to then go on to #1 and #2 below, back up and find a new copy of the js prefs file? How and where would I find a new copy?
Thanks...

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5787
You can contact the Account Security team if you are unable to reset your password using those steps:
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
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Hi,
I had an old macbook, too old to put it on icloud. So when I created my icloud account, I did it with my iphone and my ipad. Now I bought a new macbook pro.I wanted to synchronise it to my icloud account but it tell me that this account is with someone and that I have to create a new one. Seems like it does not recognised my account.
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Let me see if I've gotten this right! You want to remove an account from BOTH machines? Do this for your new machine first, then for the other.
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Thank you Airmail...this got me a little way toward a solution but is a bit over my head! (not techy here).
Since my address book looks fine, I followed the "lost/corrupt" directions. I located the pref file and see several "mail.account" lines there (a server and identity for each email address??)
The next sentence in the instructions confused me. If I DO find mail.accounts, what then? Do I need to then go on to #1 and #2 below, back up and find a new copy of the js prefs file? How and where would I find a new copy?
Thanks...

Start HCP cockpit ask to create a new account

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Hi Marc,
obviously you are right. I run into this trouble for nearly one hour.
All time I was requested to create a new account, but this failed the whole time.
After one hour the problem disappeared and all was fine.
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Guys i have a problem, I used to download apps from one of my friends apple id, now i created my new account, but when i was about to update my apps its asks for my friends id and password. now how could i update my old apps from my new apple id?

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The_Tonmoy wrote:
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Just update everything with new info/change password/ security questions.
-> https://appleid.apple.com/

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HT2534 Created an Apple id but it is asking for credit card info, and i dont want to give that, neither do i want to create a new account.

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Unless you followed, exactly, the instructions on the HT2534 page that you posted from then credit card details will need to be entered before the account can be used in the store - you should be able to remove your card's details after entering it
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Using a computer : https://discussions.apple.com/message/24321860
Using an iPhone : https://discussions.apple.com/message/24700173

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