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Etan1000

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Original poster
May 18, 2008
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For the last month or so, if I open Apple Mail in the normal way, I get only the menubar and no window open. I can click on the dropdown menus, but none of the commands work - not even Quit.

I discovered that the only way I can use Apple Mail is by force quitting and then, at the suggestion of Apple chat support, holding down the shift key as I open it. If I just hold down the shift key everytime I want to open Apple Mail, everything opens and works fine, except I have to adjust the window size, so that’s what I have been doing while googling for an answer fruitlessly.

Short of a clean install, I am wondering whether anyone else has encountered this and/or has a simpler solution.
 
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