Mail settings won't stick, how to fix?

The column settings in Mail suddenly won't stick. Probably a corrupt preference? What's the best way to deal with the problem?
Thanks,
iHope

Well, in theory, if we backup the whole shmeer, we can at least go back to where we are now...
Quit Mail. First I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
Try dragging this file to the desktop in case we need to put it back later...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
(May or may not require you to setup your account(s) again.)
Then In your home folder, try moving this +folder & file+ to the Desktop then reboot...
First, Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these +folder & file+ to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
These too...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/<[email protected]>/.mboxCache.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/.mboxCache.plist
Reboot.

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Sorry, not clear. I meant "My Settings" (top right hand corner of FCE Discussions window), not in FCE itself. The time zone setting is accepted but the next time I look it has reverted to USA GMT-8 hours, and some other settings are similarly affected
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General Mail settings won't open and Exchange account won't recieve mails

Here is a strange problem:
The Exchange mail account stopped working on my iPad after several month os working beutifully.
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New mails won't arrive, it looks like the exchange account is looping forever when trying to get new mails. (The network indicator is spinning.)
I can no longer open the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" setings, when clicked it marks the settings row but does not open any settings. After some minutes the Setting application ends and the iPad returns to the home screen.
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Or perhaps a backup setting where you can choose what parts of a backup to restore? (So I can skip the exchange mail account settings.)
Message was edited by: marha007

(My Apple account got messed up??!)
I decided to take the not so very nice road forward.
I reset my iPad to factory settings and restored it as a new iPad.
Then manually re-added all content I managed to backup (photos using a image transfer tool, the rest "pen and paper" style).
This way, the exchange account was recreated (exactly the same as before) and now it works again, just as it did before the hickup.
I still have a lot of info lost from the backup (game saves etc), so if anyone knows how to extract such things from the iPad backup that would be great!
Hope you get your issue solved eventually! The "hard way" worked for me but the whole situation has made me lower the iPad score, I don't love it as much as I did before this happend....

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[SOLVED] NVIDIA X Settings won't "stick"

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Last edited by kdorf (2008-07-04 23:40:54)

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