Mail doesn't share the computer
This happens all the time in Snow Leopard and the other Leopard before it.
I run many apps simultaneously, and I have a two-monitor set-up. The iMac is the monitor with the menu bar for the apps on it. I put MacMail on the other monitor and keep it open. I read it very often throughout the day.
After I am finished with Mail, I click in the application on the iMac, most often InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Safari, or Word (occasionally other programs). Very often, Mail doesn't give up the floor. Even though the InDesign document comes to the front (which I can verify because the ID floating panels are in front of the Mail window on the left monitor) the Mail menubar is still active on the main iMac monitor. I click and click in the ID document, but Mail stays in charge. Then I click on the ID icon in the Dock and about half the time, Mail relinquishes control. But the other half, it doesn't. I often resort to using the Apple menu command to Hide Mail. Then I can get to ID or the other program.
This does't happen when I switch between any other two apps--just when I want to switch away from Mail.
Any ideas? BTW, I have the latest OS upgrade (including Mail), but as I said, I saw this in Leopard.
There are two ways a problem happens on OSX. There's either a problem with the OS itself, which could happen, but your issue is not widely reported, and there can be old plugins or corrupted plist preference files in the user account.
Before you decide to reinstall Leopard you might as well find out if it will do any good. Each user account has it's own startup items and preference files. A new user account will not have any plugins that the regular user account has and new preference files will be created for each program as you launch it.
If you don't have the problem with a different user account, then we waste time looking at the OS. If you do have problems with a different user account, then we look at either trying to repair the OS, or more likely, reinstalling the OS and combo update on top of the existing version. This does not damage the user account unless you format the drive before installing SL.
Simply put, the Mail program and services that it uses is in the system, it's preferences and settings are in the user account. Which is the problem?
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