The reading pane Mail inbox has disappeared; what's the fix?

The reading pane of my Mail "inbox" has disaappeard; what's the fix?

This indicates the account's Inbox mailbox has an "overstuffed" mailbox issue which means the mailbox has some corruption.
All email clients have limits and although an "overstuffed" mailbox issue can occur at any mailbox size, it is more likely to occur depending on the number and size of message attachments contained in a mailbox and especially as a mailbox approaches or exceeds 1 GB in size for Jaguar/Panther Mail and 2 GB in size for Tiger Mail.
Since an account's Inbox mailbox is usually the most active mailbox, it is not a good idea to use an account's Inbox mailbox as the final storage location for all messages received that are not deleted. You can/should utilize user created "On My Mac" mailboxes to sort received messages by category that you need to save. This can be done by creating rules to automatically sort received messages to user created mailboxes by category or transferring messages manually.
That being said, quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > this account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > INBOX.mbox.
This should be for the account named folder within the original Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail, not from the backup.
Move the INBOX.mbox to the Desktop.
When re-launching Mail, a new (and empty) INBOX.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder when receiving the next message with this account. This will allow the Mail.app to function properly again and not risk losing any new messages received while working on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop.
Control-click on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop and at the menu window that appears, select Show Package Contents.
List the package content file names and size of each here.
This information is required to determine the next step to take to recover all messages contained in the mailbox.

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Clearing the forms cache
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Tools-> Options…-> tab Other-> button Advanced Options…-> button Custom Forms…-> button Manage Forms…-> button Clear Cache
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File-> section Options-> section Advanced-> group Developers-> button Custom Forms…-> button Manage Forms…-> button Clear Cache
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Hi all,
I am so sorry to be dense on this (I just switched from PC to Mac last week), but here's my question:
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