Mail no longer works. How to restore it.
About one month ago, Mail would start up and then quit. What's wierd is
Mail on another account on my MacBook Pro still worked. So I went to a
Apple store and the nice person set did something, I think they created
an alias....and it worked for 3 weeks. Now it crashes again. I have Time
Machine and have tried to restore Mail....but it still crashes.
Being a ex-PC person, I know, what I need to do is get the original program to
load again. Actually, I'd just choose a time a week ago and restore it.
Apparently this is not so easy with a Mac.
So how do I restore a application program, such as Mail, when it seems to have
'issues'?
Though I still love my mac (and can't imagine going back to Tiger) Leopard has given me a few fights (unlike any other OS X I've used since 10.1)--including this one.
Like you I use spotlight to find an email and open it that way.
Started happening to me on my MacBook and my iMac at the exact same time shortly after signing up for MobileMe. This was in-between OS X patches and I hadn't installed anything or changed any configurations. So I believe it's a MobileMe issue.
I launch things from spotlight usually anyway, so my usage isn't all that different, I just type Ikea instead of Mail (don't get me wrong, I am eagerly waiting a fix)
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