{"id":183,"date":"2015-06-04T05:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=183"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:44","slug":"spinning-wheel-in-mac-mail-osx-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/spinning-wheel-in-mac-mail-osx-mavericks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Wheel in Mac Mail – OSX Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s how to fix the spinning beach ball (wheel) issue in Mac Mail, it involves resetting the Mac Mail Preferences by trashing the com.apple.mail.plist file. \u00a0This has been tested for Mavericks and the file may reside in a different location based on the version of OSX you are using. \u00a0Do so at your own risk.<\/p>\n

Step 1 – Open Finder<\/h2>\n

Make sure Mac Mail is not running and force quit if necessary. \u00a0Open a new finder window.<\/p>\n

Step 2 – Delete the com.apple.mail.plist file<\/h2>\n

Go to \/Library\/Containers\/com.apple.mail\/Data\/Library\/Preferences and find the com.apple.mail.plist file. \u00a0Click and drag the file in to your trash.<\/p>\n

Step 3 – Restart your Mac<\/h3>\n

This one’s important – Restart your Mac and open up Mac Mail. \u00a0In most cases this will reset your Mac Mail to it’s default view and it should be good to go. \u00a0Some people have reported that they have had to add their email accounts in again so be prepared for this particularly if you don’t know how to set them up by yourself.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how to fix the spinning beach ball (wheel) issue in Mac Mail, it involves resetting the Mac Mail Preferences by trashing the com.apple.mail.plist file. \u00a0This has been tested for Mavericks and the file may reside in a different location based on the version of OSX you are using. \u00a0Do so at your own risk. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[121,119,120],"class_list":["post-183","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-mac-mail-mavericks","article-tag-mac-mail-spinning-wheel","article-tag-spinning-beach-ball"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":15,"sum_votes":53},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}