Mac Mail - Compose, Reply, Forward not working
Hi there
Running MacOS 10.7.2 - since this morning my Mac Mail will not allow me to Compose new mail (I click on the button but nothing happens), ditto for Reply or Forward. I checked console and this is what I get every time I try to do any of the above...
29/10/11 9:26:41.864 AM Mail: *** -[NSDictionary isEqualToDictionary:]: dictionary argument is not an NSDictionary
I'm a newbie to MacOS so I'm not quite sure what I can do... tried goggling but nothing comes up...
Here is more detail from Console after hitting "reply" to an email in my inbox....
29/10/11 10:45:26.187 AM Mail: *** -[NSDictionary isEqualToDictionary:]: dictionary argument is not an NSDictionary
29/10/11 10:45:26.188 AM Mail: (
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff919f7286 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff88066d5e objc_exception_throw + 43
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff919e61b4 -[NSDictionary isEqualToDictionary:] + 692
3 Message 0x00007fff9021c8e0 -[NetworkLocation isEqualToLocation:] + 45
4 Message 0x00007fff9021c583 -[LocationManager _unarchiveLocations:] + 567
5 Message 0x00007fff9021c299 -[LocationManager initWithUserDefaultsArray:] + 183
6 Message 0x00007fff9021c1a2 +[LocationManager sharedManager] + 124
7 Message 0x00007fff902a518c +[LocationManager currentLocation] + 18
8 Message 0x00007fff902a5146 -[MailAccount localizedDeliveryAccountIgnoringLockedDelivery:] + 33
9 Mail 0x0000000107cecd30 Mail + 748848
10 Mail 0x0000000107cec6ec Mail + 747244
11 Mail 0x0000000107ce3c91 Mail + 711825
12 Mail 0x0000000107ce3934 Mail + 710964
13 Mail 0x0000000107ce01de Mail + 696798
14 Mail 0x0000000107e764d5 Mail + 2360533
15 AppKit 0x00007fff905fb1a6 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 6504
16 Mail 0x0000000107cb6543 Mail + 525635
17 AppKit 0x00007fff9059368f -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 5593
18 Mail 0x0000000107cb6227 Mail + 524839
19 AppKit 0x00007fff90529682 -[NSApplication run] + 555
20 AppKit 0x00007fff907a880c NSApplicationMain + 867
21 Mail 0x0000000107d0ed88 Mail + 888200
22 ??? 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2
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