If, as you say, the source of the problem is not at all indicated by log activity, I would resolve myself to do a manual migration activity. In outline form, the steps would be as follows:
Make a folder in your home dir for saved mail; save every one of your "on my mac" mailboxes into it. If any of your mail accounts are still POP, do the same with the "live" (In, Sent, etc.) mailboxes for those accounts. Copy out your keychain files, likewise. Copy out the entire contents of your home folder to another drive. Destroy the original user and his data entirely. Recreate the user (making sure, if possible, to get the same Unix user number, which saves a lot of work) After you have logged in, copy every folder back in EXCEPT the ~/Library folder. This is where your gremlin is, guaranteed. Launch Mail, and import your saved mail. Stuff the keychain files back into your keychain dir and activate them. (You'll have to do a little do-si-do renaming to replace your login chain.) You're going to lose a lot of "user convenience data" like cookies, app preferences, system preference settings, and the like, just as if you were on a new machine. But at least you'll still have your data. I covered saving mail and keychain passwords, there are probably some other crucial user data in Library I didn't think of that other folks could add to this list. > On May 5, 2021, at 11:55 AM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you all for your help over the past few months with my mac freezing, > crashing, having applications crash and other miscellaneous crises. > > After some more testing, I've narrowed this down to my user account. In other > words, when I create another user, log is as that, and work for a while, I've > never had any of these issues. I'm not 100% sure this is the case, but there > is a marked difference. > > Since I am the only user of this Mac, there is only the one account (now plus > the test account). Obviously, I don't want to create a second account and > delete this one - there is too much data, history, etc. in everything from > documents to cookies that I'd lose. > > So, I want to repair my user account. I don't have specific causes of the > crashes (the logs show different things each time). I am seeking suggestions > on what I can do to repair this account (and diagnose if needed), so I can > continue to use it. > > Also, I may replace this Mac with a new one soon, and I will want to avoid > transferring a broken user to the new Mac. > > FYI: iMac 21" Late 2015 running MacOS 11.3 > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
