Mail hangs on upon conversion in Lion

Hi
i opened mail after a smoothless migration, or so i thought....
Upon opening mail, I got a message that it needed to update the mail to apply the new changes and it would take some minutes.
It is stuck at about 40% and does not move from that.
what can i do?
thanks
Andrea

Thanks for the link. I also had the same problem, and tried the link you suggested. But, it didn't work in my case. I think there are various causes that can lead to this same symptom. In my case, the cause was file permission and ownership that were incorrectly set after manually backing up and restoring Home/Library directory across OS re-installations. So, after running a terminal command "chown -R myid:mygroup *" in my home directory/Library, the problem went away. Hope this would help others with the same problem.
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