I'm using Mac OS v.10.4.9 and Parallels build 3188. My Mac Mail program crashes about 50% of the time upon opening. I have to think this has something to do with Parallels. I've never had problems before with the stability of the Mac or software for the Mac. Any comments/observations? Steve
LOL mail 2.11 never does on OS 10.4.9 which versions are yours how much empty hard disk space have you got ? 16.5 out of 111 gb on mine cloning Parallels took a lot of space so I moved all the old stuff to a new FireWire disk Hugh W
Hugh--I'm using Mail 2.1.1 and OS 10.4.9 -- Same as you How can I find out how much empty hard disk space I have? Thanks!
Try doing a Right click on your mac hard disk on the desktop and use the "Get Info" command. I have Mail 2.1.1 with parallel build 3188 which I use for about 8 hours at least 2 days per week and I do not have any instability. Have you tried to do a "Verify disk" In the Disk Utility application? You could also have a corrupt email causing issues, this happened to me before. It was a long and painful process but basically I had to figure out which email file was corrupted and get rid of it. Mind you this was right after I had done the switch to MAC, and thus imported my emails from my linux machine. As soon as I got rid of the corrupted emails, mail was a model of stability and this was 5 years ago under 10.4.2.
that is the windows way of doing things on a mac single click any icon to select it ctrl + I will get the info OR Mac menu bar >> Finder >> File >> Get Info AND if you select multiple icon first by drawing a rectangle with the mouse button held down you get info for all of them AND ctrl + W shuts any window AND in case of panic ctrl + period stops any process One of the reasons artists love the Mac is the same short cuts work in (almost) any application enjoy Hugh W
It is command + I. But that after selecting an icon tells you only the usage of what is in the folder, not the disk. The desktop, btw, in true object oriented fashion, is just a folder (one that is always open), so command + I will tell you about the Desktop's capacity. You need to select the disk drive and right click or command + I to learn what is available for free space.
I'm using 51 of 111 gigabytes. How do you find a corrupted email? Try to open them all? I'm willing. Haven't run Verify Disk yet but will today or tomorrow. Thanks.
Me too More than half the time, after running Parallels, Mail 2.1.1 will not start up on my MBP 10.4.9 - it sits on the dock with its black arrow but a mail viewer window never opens and the application doesn't respond; normally the whole computer will then hang if i try and force-quit mail. Rebooting the computer while holding down the shift key (what's mac-ese for "Safe Mode"?!) takes a long time but cures the problem.
Uh-oh... Try un-installing Parallels to see if that fixes it. Back-up first! Here is a thread: http://forum.parallels.com/thread1226.html Are you asking what the safe-mode key is?
Thanks Eru. Um, not really the point. Mail typically will not launch after I use Parallels. So I suppose uninstalling Parallels would fix the problem, but I bought Parallels because I need to use it. Uninstalling it would mean I couldn't use it. This seems to echo a problem CStephen84 has been having. Could be a bug in Parallels then. (I also know the safe mode key (shift, like I said in my message), but just didn't know the official Mac terminology (maybe it's "Safe Mode", I dunno!))
Have you thought about trying to rebuild the Mail database? http://blog.dogbark.com/2007/03/02/apple-mailapp-sluggish/ or the index http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/rebuild-your-database-and-speed-up-mailapp/
I figured as much... I was just confuzzled yesterday I guess. As to un-installing, I meant to say do a fresh install afterwards. Geez, I need to say what I mean. But before doing the fresh install, see if Mac Mail works. In which case we know for SURE what is messing with Mail.
