Recent content by banjotrout

Thanks to both Satcomer and VirtualTracy. Finally had time tonight to backup the important email folders. Had to reload Mac OS X. The mail.plist in the Preferences folder was definitely the culprit. We tried to toss that out and Mail *almost* restarted, but then it kept building a corrupted...

I see two suggestions already. Thanks for the ideas. I'm traveling and don't have the G4 with me, but when I get home tomorrow night, I'll test some theories and see what I can do. I appreciate the info on backing up the library files.

iBook G4 running OSX 10.3 with the original Mail program installed. Operating normally, until yesterday we clicked the Mail program, it opened, then shut down almost immediately. We cannot get it to stay open long enough to even ask it to work offline. Airport connection working normally...

Thanks, Giaguara! I'll print out your post and test it when I go to my dad's house next. I'll definitely let you know if it works!

Apologies for delay in responding--I was out of town. No, I cannot find the OS X install disk. I believe the OS X software came preloaded on the computer when we purchased it.

My father has an eMac desktop computer running OSX 10.2.4 We finally hooked him up on DSL, and are now trying to update some of his software through downloads. His system asks us for a User and Password. The User it recognizes is my mom, now deceased 4 years, and we have no idea what password...