Mail causes Finder/Dock to hang
Immediately after updating to iTunes 9.0.2 (25) I find that opening Apple Mail causes the Dock to refuse to open, and the computer (MacPro, early 2009, OS 10.6.1) must be rebooted to access any Finder functions.
Hi Bob:
Did you also run repair disk from your software install DVD? That is not the same thing as permission repair.
If you have done that and it did not help, rebuild the mailbox(s) in the Mail application. Then try trashing a couple of preference files and restarting.
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.dock.plist
I am still puzzled about why the programs/functions you mention seem to be interrelated.
Barry
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Since the last security update a few weeks ago, I find a lot of my old software doesn't work anymore.
The symptom is the Finder and Dock stop responding, and the Finder menu bar at the top of the screen disappears.
I have updated Unsanity's Fruit menu extension, but this is no longer reliable. Also some older apps seem to cause Finder/Dock crashes as well.
Specifically I'd like to find a Apple-Menu hack to allow me to put folders etc in there. Are there alternatives to Fruit Menu?
thanksFirst, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
At this point I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667/applejack
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 6 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 6 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
First reboot will be slower, sometimes 2 or 3 restarts will be required for full benefit... my guess is files relying upon other files relying upon other files! :-)
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Posting this to the Exchange forum because I'm hoping there's a server-side solution.
SOME emails received from an external sender (gmail.com address, not sure the mail client) are causing Outlook 2010 to hang when trying to open the email. Outlook becomes non-responsive when viewing the email through the preview pane or by double-clicking
the email. If I open Task Manager I see that the outlook.exe process memory use starts increasing very quickly. As far as I know the only resolution is to end the task and re-open Outlook (and avoid that email).
I've found several excellent threads on these same symptoms, but there seems to be a variety of causes. I've tried a bunch of things so far:
- Tried opening from another system on our network running Outlook 2010, same issue.
- Tried opening from OWA, opens fine.
- Tried exporting the email to a PST, then opening from a completely different system outside of our network, but still running Outlook 2010, same issue.
- Tried exporting the email to a PST then opening from a completely different system outside of our network, running Outlook 2013, email opens fine.
- Tried setting Outlook to open all emails as PLAIN TEXT, opens fine.
Systems are running the latest Outlook 2010 SP and patches, and running a variety of OS's. Only common denominator seems to be Outlook 2010.
I was hoping to find a way to convert incoming emails from this sender to open as Plain Text using a Hub Transport rule, but cannot find a way to do it.
Unfortunately I have no control over the sender, so don't know what could be triggering the problem.
Can anyone advise on a possible solution? Any way to someone convert emails from a particular sender to Plain Text automatically?Either you inform the sender to configure in sender's outlook to send only to you in plain text please check this
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/outlook-help/change-the-message-format-to-html-rich-text-or-plain-text-HA101992313.aspx
Or
Call a macro in your outlook example below. Please check
this for details
Dim msg As MailItem
For Each msg In myNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Items
If msg.Unread = True And _
msg.SenderName = "Linda Cooper" Then
Item.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain
Else
' Message doesn't meet criteria.
End If
Thanks,
MAS
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10.5.1 doesn't fix 802.1X WEP os-logon and Go To Folder in finder dock Bug
Hi,
I still have a bug when opening folder/directory view from the finder dock icon. it instantly locks the finder and i have to kill it to get it function again. This bug doesnt' work when a finder window is open.. (as referred to be me in http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5768515#5768515)
There is still also a bug when i was using 802.1X WEP encryption at college earlier today. when booting leopard it searches for new or known wireless networks and gives me a password dialog. Since I authenticate against a LDAP server (U/P settings stored in the 802.1X tab) ) and also have a certificate, this dialog box is wrong. If i enter my password it also doesn't work!
When canceling the dialog box and going to the wireless menu in the top right screen and selecting my access point, i get connected right away!!
Come on apple, you can do better then that!
Also, please remove or upgrade the "address book" in the terminal application, its still a shame...
Regards,
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edit: I just realized what you meant about the /Library/Fonts folder. I did the ~ one too, but no dice.
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I am trying to build a proof of concept where a WPF form is hosted in a seperate runspace and updates are handled from the primary shell/runspace. I have had some success thanks to a great article by Boe Prox, but I am having an issue I wanted to open up
to see if anyone had a suggestion.
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In the example below, the form is loaded and the following steps occur:
1.) Update-Combobox is called and it populates the combobox with a list of service names and selects the first item.
2.) update-textbox is called and sets the Text property of the textbox.
3.) The Text value of the textbox is read by the function read-textbox and output using write-host.
4.) An event handle is registered for the SelectionChanged event for the combobox to call the update-textbox function used earlier.
5.) If you change the selection on the combobox, the shell and UI hangs as soon as $SyncHash is referenced. I suspect this is causing some sort of blocking condition from multiple threads trying to access the synchronized nature of the hash table, but I am
unsure as to why / how to work around it. If you comment out the line "$SyncHash.TXT_Output.Dispatcher.Invoke("Send",[action]{$SyncHash.TXT_Output.Text = $Value})" within update-textbox the event handler will execute/complete.
$UI_JobScript =
try{
Function New-Form ([XML]$XAML_Form){
$XML_Node_Reader=(New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $XAML_Form)
[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($XML_Node_Reader)
try{
Add-Type –AssemblyName PresentationFramework
Add-Type –AssemblyName PresentationCore
Add-Type –AssemblyName WindowsBase
catch{
Throw "Unable to load the requisite Windows Presentation Foundation assemblies. Please verify that the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 or later is installed on this system."
$Form = New-Form -XAML_Form $SyncHash.XAML_Form
$SyncHash.Form = $Form
$SyncHash.CMB_Services = $SyncHash.Form.FindName("CMB_Services")
$SyncHash.TXT_Output = $SyncHash.Form.FindName("TXT_Output")
$SyncHash.Form.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
$SyncHash.Error = $Error
catch{
write-host $_.Exception.Message
#End UI_JobScript
#Begin Main
add-type -AssemblyName WindowsBase
[XML]$XAML_Form = @"
<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
<Window.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="DTMPL_Name">
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" />
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<DockPanel LastChildFill="True">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" DockPanel.Dock="Top">
<Label Name="LBL_Services" Content="Services:" />
<ComboBox Name="CMB_Services" ItemTemplate="{StaticResource DTMPL_Name}"/>
</StackPanel>
<TextBox Name="TXT_Output"/>
</DockPanel>
</Window>
$SyncHash = [hashtable]::Synchronized(@{})
$SyncHash.Add("XAML_Form",$XAML_Form)
$SyncHash.Add("InitialScript", $InitialScript)
$Normal = [System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority]::Normal
$UI_Runspace =[RunspaceFactory]::CreateRunspace()
$UI_Runspace.ApartmentState = [System.Threading.ApartmentState]::STA
$UI_Runspace.ThreadOptions = [System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.PSThreadOptions]::ReuseThread
$UI_Runspace.Open()
$UI_Runspace.SessionStateProxy.SetVariable("SyncHash",$SyncHash)
$UI_Pipeline = [PowerShell]::Create()
$UI_Pipeline.Runspace=$UI_Runspace
$UI_Pipeline.AddScript($UI_JobScript) | out-Null
$Job = $UI_Pipeline.BeginInvoke()
$SyncHash.ServiceList = get-service | select name, status | Sort-Object -Property Name
Function Update-Combobox{
write-host "`nBegin Update-Combobox [$(get-date)]"
$SyncHash.CMB_Services.Dispatcher.Invoke($Normal,[action]{$SyncHash.CMB_Services.ItemsSource = $SyncHash.ServiceList})
$SyncHash.CMB_Services.Dispatcher.Invoke($Normal,[action]{$SyncHash.CMB_Services.SelectedIndex = 0})
write-host "`End Update-Combobox [$(get-date)]"
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write-host "`nBegin Update-Textbox [$(get-date)]"
$SyncHash.TXT_Output.Dispatcher.Invoke("Send",[action]{$SyncHash.TXT_Output.Text = $Value})
write-host "End Update-Textbox [$(get-date)]"
Function Read-Textbox(){
write-host "`nBegin Read-Textbox [$(get-date)]"
$SyncHash.TXT_Output.Dispatcher.Invoke($Normal,[action]{$Global:Return = $SyncHash.TXT_Output.Text})
$Global:Return
remove-variable -Name Return -scope Global
write-host "End Read-Textbox [$(get-date)]"
#Give the form some time to load in the other runspace
$MaxWaitCycles = 5
while (($SyncHash.Form.IsInitialized -eq $Null)-and ($MaxWaitCycles -gt 0)){
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 200
$MaxWaitCycles--
Update-ComboBox
Update-Textbox -Value $("Initial Load: $(get-date)")
Write-Host "Value Read From Textbox: $(Read-TextBox)"
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $SyncHash.CMB_Services -EventName SelectionChanged -SourceIdentifier "CMB_Services.SelectionChanged" -action {Update-Textbox -Value $("From Selection Changed Event: $(get-date)")}Thanks again for the responses. This may not be possible, but I thought I would throw it out there. I appreciate your help in looking into this.
To clarify the "Respond to control events in the main runspace"... I'm would like to have an event generated by a form object in the UI runspace (ex: combo box selectionchanged event) trigger a delegate within the main runspace and have that delegate in
the main runspace update the form in the UI runspace.
ex:
1.) User changes selection on combo box generating form event
2.) Event calls delegate (which I have gotten to work)
3.) Delegate does some basic processing (works)
4.) Delegate attempts to update form in UI runspace (hangs)
As to the delegates / which runspace they are running in. I see the $synchash variable if I run get-var within a delegate, but I do not see the $Form variable so I am assuming that they are in the main runspace. Do you agree with that assumption? -
I have an email account causes the machine to hang up after being in use for a day. It only occurs on my Macbook Pro and only one particular account. The problem account works fine on my iMac and Windows Machines. I have been to the local Genius bar and through trial and error we have determined that Mail is working ok but somehow the account is causing the problem. I have used this account for years. Any ideas what is causing this?
No idea why, but one thing you may try if you have the time, is create a new user, and set up the problem mail account in the new user space. See if it causes your MBP to hang as well. That will tell you if it is something wrong with your main User, or something wrong with MBP.
Assuming this works, I'd nuke the problem account in your main user space, re-start, and reinititate the account and see if that helps.
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Enabling Drill Through causing Essbase Integration Server hang.
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I have checked in before itself the Drill down option ......
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Mac Mail: Unread mail counter on dock icon shows "phantom" unread mails
The mailconter of my Mac Mail icon on the dock shows 25 unread messages, but I'm unable to find these inside Mac Mail as unread messages.
I did check all mailboxes and their subfolders for any undread messages that might be inside them, but I didn't find any.
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The proposed rebuild did suddenly reveal the 25 unread mails insinde my archive mailfolders. By marking these as read again now shows the correct count of unread mails on the dock icon.
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How do i remove mail from the dock?
i want to use the gmail app instead of "Mail" in the dock. How do i move mail out of the dock?
You're welcome.
Trev Greenbank wrote:
Seem to not be able to do it on the phone at all.
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I am suddenly unable to open mail from the dock. dock shows mail is up and running, but stamp icon does not respond when clicked, there is no mail window opened, and will not quit. when double clicked, get new mail is not an option and I get no response with other actions.
I am retrieving mail on my phone with no problem. this just began happening, no updates or problems with anything else.
help?command-option-esc keys and force quit Mail. Then relaunch.
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If your hard drive is getting full, you need to free up, at least, 20 GBs of space on your iMac's hard drive.
If your Mac is running a fairly recent version of OS X, here are some general guidelines.
Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
Have you emptied your iMac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Other things you can do to gain space.
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it run the automatic ans S.M,A.R.T. tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the tabs that have the ability to clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
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Mail is not working. The app opens because I see a light on under "Mail" in the dock.
Mail is not working. The app opens because I see a light on under "Mail" in the dock, and I see the menu at the top of my screen, but I don't see the app itself or any windows. It is like it is running in the background, but I can't see it. Everthing is subdued when I click on the choices up in the menu. I have tried "Force Quit" and then re-opening the mail app several times, and have rebooted my notebook twice. What is weird is that this started right after I changed my password in a browser (it is a gmail account). I went into the System Preferences on my MacBook and changed my password there as well, so it should be setup properly to open. I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. Any help anyone can provide is much appreciated.
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The problem in a nutshell:
On 2 different occasions today, trying to open the hard drive folder (after not accessing the EHD for a couple hours) caused Finder to crash and my Macbook hung on shutdown - I had to unplug the USB hub or do a forced manual shutdown. When restarting the computer, my computer couldn't read the hard drive - I did find a way to fix that (see details below).
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Last week I bought two identical Hitachi DeskPro 3TB USB hard drives -- call them External HD A & B --, connected to my Macbook via a USB hub that has its own power source. The EHDs have their own power sources as well. All power sources are plugged into surge-protected power strips. (The EHD B is a cloned copy of the EHD A using backup software).
Each EHD is divided into 3 partitions.
In System Preferences, I did NOT choose to have the hard drive(s) go to sleep whereever possible.
Both EHDs run cool - I've never seen any sign of overheating.
Details of What Happened:
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Upon restart, I got a message that "a drive plugged into this computer cannot be read", giving me the option to Initialize, Ignore, or Eject. Restarting my Macbook (with one or both EHDs connected) didn't make a difference.
Neither drive showed up in Disk Utility, but they both showed up in System Profiler under USB, albeit with much fewer details than when the drives are showing up normally. The scanner attached to the USB hub has worked just fine.
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In Mountain Lion, this behaviour has changed. Now either nothing happens, or Mission Control Expose kicks in with a blank screen since there are no Finder windows already open to show.
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