MacBook Pro :: Crashed While Writing Email When Back Up Account Gone (but Still On Hard Drive)
Aug 28, 2014
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Was working on my emails and computer crashed. When I turned the computer back on everything came back except the email program and emails.
Instead it asks me to open new mail account. I can find the emails on my hard drive but when I click on them...goes to same window to open and asks to open new mail acct. How can I recover and have access to my mail account?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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