Lost Mail Program

I accidentally moved the "Mail" icon from the desktop in the basket with photo icons and deleted in secured system afterwards. I realized before finishing the complet delete and stopped the process. There is still an Icon Mail in the control panel, but it's not opening with the message "architecture not supported". Is there any way to save the Mail program? otherwise it's bad luck!

Hi Marimoo,
Welcome to the Forums!
Just to clarify - did you remove the Mail icon from the [Dock|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2474] to the trash? if so it is just a simple matter of dragging the Mail icon from your Applications folder back to the dock.

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Thanks for that babowa. If I add my Yahoo account it just goes straight to MacMail and says I already have an account. There seems to be no basic problem with mails going between Macmail and Yahoo. It is just the folders that have disappeared, while MacMail was out of action. I don't think those particular folders were ever on the Yahoo mail that I access through BT, they were just on the MacMail under "Yahoo" as opposed to "On my Mac". I am worried in case I lose what I already have if I press "Restore" from my back up. As you can see, I am not exactly good at this!

Lost my address book entries and current mail program.

I recently installed Leopard on my G-4 and was not satisfied with it so I attempted to downgrade back to Tiger. In order to do this I had to reinstall Panther which I did, only I lost all my user settings, etc., even though I had checked the box to save. When my desktop appeared, my address book and mail program was empty. I backed up my mail program but have been unable to access my mail from 2007, only up to 2006. I went to Previous Systems, but again, only up to 2006. I have been all over my hard drive looking for my old address book but haven't found anything. Would my old address book still be there and if so, where? And how can I access my mail from 2007, even on the program that is backed up?
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Hello Allan -
Your help on a previous post was great re: my wanting to know how to delete the Address Book contents so I can re-import an updated list form my office Outlook, via my yahho/sbcglobal import.
Well - here is an interesting quandary:
I have successfully exported my yahoo address book/contacts as a .vcf file Yet - once I have expunged the prior Address Book data and want to now import the NEW Yahoo data to rebuild the database it only takes (enters) the phone numbers and does NOT import ANY of the address information. I am positive I did this once since our original exchange and everything transferred just fine, but now….?!
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Lost mail body and marked messages - Maverick Upgrade

I lost some message body (they are listed but have no content) and 15 out of 16 messages marked with a flag where not in the Marked Message Folder. That happened after upgrading to Maverick. I tried to replace only the Mail folder in the libraray with the old one from Time Capsule. Didn't work. Had to reinstall whole system.

i had lost mail body, this is how i fixed it:
hold option, click GO in the top bar (where the apple icon lives), go to library > Mail > V2
now here's where things may differ slightly, i lost the body of mails i had moved to my computer (on my mac), plus i'm using Gmail accounts, that being said, inside the mailboxes folder is where the local folders are and Mail decided to create duplicate folders of some of them so i had
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Clients-2.mbox (with the missing ones)
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Using Mail Program with Gmail, Mail automatically bcc:s me on every email

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Hi, and welcome to the forums,
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Hello RCraig1984,
The article linked below details some useful information and steps that can help isolate and resolve issues with applications quitting unexpectedly.
OS X Lion: If an application quits unexpectedly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4063
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Allen

How do i restore an old version of the mail program?

My MacBook is running 10.6. I just did a software update and now cannot open my mail program. How do I restore back to my old version

You don't.
Mac OS X v10.6: Mail.app won’t open, or "You can't use this version of Mail…" alert after installing Security Update 2012-004:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4424?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Fellow user Grant Bennet-Alder offers this solution:
Some users have reported this problem if the Mail Application has been moved out of the top-level /Applications folder, or duplicated in another location.
When the Security Update is done, the old version of Mail is disabled.
The solution has been to:
1) make certain Mail is in the /Applications folder
2) There is no other copy anywhere else.
3) Once steps 1 and 2 have been done, Manually download and re-apply the Security Update (2012-004) by hand.
Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard)
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Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1

Is there a way to completely reinstall my mail program?

I'm having serious problems with my Mail program and am thinking that maybe if I just completely reinstall Mail on my MacBook Pro, that might help. How would I go about this? (And is there a way to do it without using those discs you get when you buy your computer? Because I lost those when our basement flooded during Hurricane Irene!)

Your problem is more likely because of something in your User, the Mail program is a global item, meaning many users can use the same program.
You can try a simple fix first.
Use the Finder > Go to open:
~/Library/Preferences
and drop the
com.apple.mail.plist
file into the Trash, reboot the machine and launch Mail, reset your preferences. See if that fixs your issue. (the plist file is automatically recreated)
To find out if it's really something in your user or the mail program itself, create/log into a another user and use the Mall program there, if issues still occur, it's the Mail program.
(If it's not in the Mail program, reinstalling it will make no difference.)
The Mail program is reinstalled from the 10.6 disks as bundled programs, or part of a "OS X overwrite" that replaces your current OS X and bundled programs with the older version on the 10.6 disk, you need to immediately Software update afterwards to get OS X and bundled programs current again.
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Some third party programs that have kext files and other "hooks" into OS X may not function again after performing the OS X overwrite, you just need to reinstall these programs again from fresh sources and it will replace those hooks/kext files back into OS X.
Please backup your files to a external storage drive and mainatin two seperate hardware copies of your data off the machine at ALL times.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

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hello
I did something yesterday and have not found anyone to help me. iIt may not possible but I am not ready to give up.
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I renamed it, with 2 '**' in front of 'hearts'.
(The asteriks bring the folder to the top of all folders, which I do to prioritize.)
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That's when it all went down.
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They both have all the subfolders that were originally there. The only difference was that on letter 'h' , lowercase and uppercase.
And one more difference, which NO one at Apple can explain.
One folder (the 'hearts) was white, while the other was blue, like all the other mail folders.
I decided I don't need both, and it would get confusing fast, so I deleted the white one.
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I've purchased the data recovery software...no luck there.
Thought I'd try this route.
I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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How to I get a link with a "Mail to" address to open up a Compose window in my Yahoo mail, rather than in the Mail progrom on my Mac. I do not use the Mac Mail program.

How to I get a link with a "Mail to" address to open up a Compose window in my Yahoo mail, rather than in the Mail progrom on my Mac. I do not use the Mac Mail program.
== This happened ==
Not sure how often
== always

Thank you, "the-edmeister" -- You render a great service, one that lifts my spirits.
Your answer also taught me to be a little more persistent, as I had started looking at Preferences, and just didn't notice the icons (including Applications) at the top of that window that would have led me to my answer.
Dave

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I also have a Macbook Air running the latest Lion, as well as an iPod 5 running IOS7. Both access my iCloud mail address and folders/filtering set up on iCloud.
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Nicol K

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