Mail problem (no window)

[waterskier2007]

I went to launch mail today (OS 10.7 DP 4) and the window simply does not show up. The menubar for mail shows up, it has my unread count in the dock, but there is no window. I can even pull up the windows for photo browser, fonts, etc. but I cannot see the main window. I have tried going to File>New Viewer Window. I also tried deleting the plist to no avail. Anyone experience anything similar/figure it out? Thanks

 

[phpmaven]

I went to launch mail today (OS 10.7 DP 4) and the window simply does not show up. The menubar for mail shows up, it has my unread count in the dock, but there is no window. I can even pull up the windows for photo browser, fonts, etc. but I cannot see the main window. I have tried going to File>New Viewer Window. I also tried deleting the plist to no avail. Anyone experience anything similar/figure it out? Thanks

I'm assuming you tried rebooting?

 

[waterskier2007]

I'm assuming you tried rebooting?

yeah rebooted, didn't help. kinda sucks because i was looking forward to trying out mail and used it once, so i know it worked then it just stopped working the next time i launched it

 

[mrapplegate]

yeah rebooted, didn't help. kinda sucks because i was looking forward to trying out mail and used it once, so i know it worked then it just stopped working the next time i launched it

Does Window, Bring All To Front command do anything?

 

[waterskier2007]

Does Window, Bring All To Front command do anything?

nope, tried that. also tried click/hold in the dock and going to show all windows, but that just goes into "expose" showing nothing

 

[mrapplegate]

nope, tried that. also tried click/hold in the dock and going to show all windows, but that just goes into "expose" showing nothing

Strange. As a test, rename or move the Mail folder in ~/Library to the desktop and start mail, see if it starts normally.

 

[waterskier2007]

Strange. As a test, rename or move the Mail folder in ~/Library to the desktop and start mail, see if it starts normally.

that worked. thanks so much, what should i do with that mail folder now because it made a new one when it relaunched

 

[mrapplegate]

that worked. thanks so much, what should i do with that mail folder now because it made a new one when it relaunched

Are your accounts IMAP or POP? IMAP will re-import, POP will just get new mail when it arrives.

It might have been a corrupt message, I'm not sure. Now that it works, experiment by bringing the "OLD" Mail folder back, open mail and see what happens.
Maybe try Mailbox , Rebuild command with the Old mail folder.