Can't open mail, can't shut down computer

Can't open mailbox, was not receiving new mail, so changed password, now new mail number are popping up in icon, but clicking the icon, mail doesn't open. Trying to shut down, I get a box that tells me to quit mail, but that option is not available . Help

Can't shut down because I "need to shut down mail" but that option is not available

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iphoto has been importing photos for over n hour and I can't get it to stop. Can't get out of iphoto and can't shut down computer.

iPhoto works best when the source (Pictures folder) is on a different disk drive than the iPhoto Library is on.
And you need to have enough free disk space to work with, the faster the better.
Also, do not keep your media folders and those in your home folder on the same drive as the system, also another bottleneck.
Until or unless you have everything on 1400MB/sec SSD PCIe controller, you want
System boot drive
Media and data folders and such
scratch
backup
etc
I put iPhoto on an SSD off an SSD PCIe Sonnet Tempo card
If you stop- it, you will need to trash the Library it was creating.
Reading and writing to/from the same hard drive will be slow.
You don't mention which Mac, or how large you are trying to import etc
Also the support page and link to the iPhoto Commuinity is off this page:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto
Take a look in Activity Monitor. See what the % being used for iPhoto, how many pageouts, how much free space on the various disk drives, and how much RAM do you have installed?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342

My air won't open mail and I can't shut down computer because I can't quit mail

My MacBook Air won't open mail. Now I can't shut down the computer because mail interrupts shutdown but I can't quit mail either

Try doing a reboot by holding both the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears, ignore the red slider if that appears.

Can't shut down computer. K9A2GM

Hello!
I have a strange problem, I can't shut down my computer. What happens is that I turn it off and windows shuts down and the screen says "turning off computer" or something. Then it's like that for like 15 minutes then everything goes black and the graphics card fan turns on at 100% speed. Then I have to press and hold the power button for 4 seconds to force it to shut down. I can't make it go into rest as well, the same thing happens.
It all started when I bought a new graphics card ,Powercolor HD 4850, and installed it. I forgot to connect the power chord to the mainboard so when I started the computer the it started to beep and warned me that the power chord was disconnected. So I turned it off and connected it. When I started it again I got a message:
"Warning!!! The previous overclocking had failed , and system will restore its default setting. Press any key to continue..."
But since I had a USB keyboard that didn't work in BIOS I couldn't press any key. So I removed the battery to clear the BIOS and then it worked...but with this annoying problem instead.
I have asked in several forums but they didn't know how to solve it. You're the experts I suppose...If you solve this one I'll be very grateful. My electrical bill is skyrocketing at the moment...
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Hi guys!
I tried your suggestions but none of them worked so I finally reinstalled Windows. And it worked fine at the beginning, I could turn it off with no problem. I was later that night, when I was about to turn the computer off for the day, that the problems started. Windows update had downloaded some updates so it said "Installing updates do not turn off computer." It had 69 updates to install so I let the computer on over night. When I woke up the next day it was still on, back in windows. The problem was back... What is different from my old problem is that the computer doesn't freeze this time.
I reinstalled windows once more but the same thing happened.
What happens is this:
I turn it off, the screen says "turning off computer" but nothing happens. After like 5-10 minutes a blue screen occurs and it says somewhere on the top DRIVER_POWER_STATUS_FAILURE or something, can't remeber exactly. Then it restarts itself.
This is starting to get annoying now...

Iphoto will not close or let me shut down computer. Now it's frozen and can't even view photos. Thanks.

I don't know how this started, but I'm unable to shut down my computer because I get message saying my photos are being synced with online... which they aren't. Now iphoto is frozen. Can't shut down computer or view photos.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I have a MacBook Pro bought about 18 mos ago.

Force restart your computer, back up your iPhoto library, depress the option an command keys, launch iPhoto and rebuild the library
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HT5361 I can't shut down my computer because it says mail is open. It says to close mail and continue shut down. Problem is I can't open or close mail now. Can't shut down my computer at all. What can I do?

I can't shut down my computer because it says mail is open. It says to close mail and continue shut down. Problem is I can't open or close mail now. Can't shut down my computer at all. What can I do?

If you cannot get mail to quit/force quit, you can always remove power from your Mac.
NOTE: removing power is a bad idea, and can result in data loss, but sometimes it is the only thing left to do.
Press and hold the power button for 5 to 10 seconds, and the Mac will power off.
When you power back on, the Mac should reboot.

TS3276 When I click on my mail icon nothing happens...it won't open or quit (so I can't shut down my computer). What's going on?

When I click on my mail icon nothing happens...it won't open or quit (so I can't shut down my computer). What's going on?

Which Mail icon? That in the Applications folder, that in the Dock, or some other? You do not have to quit your applications in order to shut down your computer (heck, you hardly ever need to shut down your computer).

I checked my mail, then opened safari, now the light on the mail icon is on, but I can't open nor quit it! Hence can't shut down my mac

I checked my email, then opened safari, when I went back to mail, it was gone, the light under the icon is on, but I can't open the email nor quit the application, hence can't shut down my Mac!
Help!

Read this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411. If this doesn't work, just hold the power button down for 5-10 seconds and your mac will shut down.

My mail won't open or close and I can't shut down my mac

My mail won't open or close and I can't shut down my Mac

Same here.
Can't be. This forum covers pre-2006 iMacs; MacBook Pros have a completely different architecture and therefore different issues. For Mail problems, the best place to post is in the forum for your OSX version from the list here:
Mac OS & System Software
BTW, my wife and I both use Apple mail and have not had any issues from about OSX 10.6 on. Admittedly, when Mail was introduced with OSX thirteen years ago, it had some real problems, but they seem to have been fixed.

Can't shut down after opening Java Control Panel

Hello,
I'm just a regular guy with Windows ME and since I installed JRE 1.4.2_02 (for Mozilla 1.5), I can't shut down my pc after opening the Java Control Panel. Javaw.exe stays in memory (Norton System Information) even after the JCP has been closed. This was not an issue with 1.4.1 beta which I used for a long time. Then I could open the JCP applet and make adjustments (minor, just whether or not I wanted it to be able to cache applets etc.) then I would close it and nothing interfered with shutdown.
I have even tried Enditall2 and Sysinternals Process Explorer's close and kill functions and neither can close or kill Javaw.exe.
I have very little running in the background and never had shutdown issues until installing JRE 1.4.2_02 and it works fine other than this issue with JCP and shutdown.
Thankyou for any advice.

Gave up, went back to 1.4.1_05, shutdown problem solved.
Disappointed but at least Java works okay and I can adjust things in JCP applet without having to do the three finger salute twice each time. No more Javaw in memory when I close the applet.
Played with Java Web Start's demos, seem to work fine, I guess. Really don't understand what JWS is for, not for us non-programmers?

TS3276 Mail application keeps shutting down short after start up - resulting in an error message. how can I repair what is wrong without losing my mail history?

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Dear Apple Community,
since 10.7.4 Mail won't close sometimes. I use mail sometimes in Full-Screen, sometimes in the standard mode. If I'm finished with Mail, I close mail using "cmd+w" & "cmd+Q" or "cmd+Q". The programm is closed (window is gone), but the little blue bubble stays under the Mail icon at the dock. If I want to shut down my MacBook Pro (early 2011) I get the message "Can't shut down. You have to end Mail."
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I usually quit all programs with shortcut keys.
MAIL now quits everytime if I just click Mail-Quit Mail
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