Installing maverics: mail-database will not update - it 'hangs'

Just updated to mavericks
all seems to work, except that Mail will not start: the database update process seems to hang.
Is anything known about this? How can I re-start this process manually and re-import the mail data from my ccc backup?
I am upgrading from mountain-Lion on a 2nd partition of the same disk, just to see if all will work nicely. I did the same thing with my macbook and this worked fine.
Any intelligence out there?

Do a backup.
Quit Mail.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Go to Library/Containers/com.apple.mail. Move the folder com.apple.mail to your desktop. You must move the entire folder, not just the contents.
Restart, re-launch Mail and test. If the problem is solved, recreate any required Mail settings and import any emails you want to save from the folder on the desktop. You can then put the folder in the Trash. If the problem remains, return the folder to where you got it replacing the one that is there.
Information learned from Linc Davis. Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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