[sussex_mug] Mail flood freezes iMac

2012-09-08 Thread Phil Tomlinson
Dear all My unhappy story may be of group interest. I was using Mail this morning on my iMac when it signalled the download of several 100 emails. Nothing appeared in my inbox but the mac promptly froze and I haven' t yet been able to get it to work. I remember Gilly reporting a similar problem

Re: [sussex_mug] Mail flood freezes iMac

2012-09-08 Thread Sam - MacAmbulance
Could be anything from a corrupt email to a bad block on the hard drive, is everything else working ok without the spinning beachball of doom? Regards Sam MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk i...@macambulance.co.uk On 8

Re: [sussex_mug] Mail flood freezes iMac

2012-09-08 Thread Phil Tomlinson
No spinning doom ball - the mouse doesn't function, but arrow keys can select certain icons and return key makes certain operations happen eg I can get from the users screen to my own segment of the computer, but once there nothing much seems to work - can't get into the menu lists to select

Re: [sussex_mug] Mail flood freezes iMac

2012-09-08 Thread Phil Tomlinson
Have got the iMac working again, having typed in the commands you sent me last time. However, the commands weren't recognised and after viewing a long list of other available commands I chose exit and was returned to OSX mountain lion and everything seems to be working. I tried to use Onyx to