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Yesterday my MacBook somehow froze and I can’t make it response to my inputs from keyboard, mouse and trackpad. Well, few seconds on the power button clear things up and I was back to the heaven again.

But I was wrong. After I launched the Apple Mail, It just froze, my mouse cursor turn to rainbow turning wheel. Ok, I’m doomed. I have my work mails that need to be responded that day. Tried to restart, delete the cache, remove some.plist (I backed them up before delete them). Nothings work. Somehow I got a feeling that the index was screwed up but I don’t know how to fix them.

Luckily after sometime *while toying with 64 bit inteprid*, uncle google gave me a random page that told me how to prevent Mail to retrieve, open folder and open preview for on focus mail after launched. Simply by holding the shift button while launching Mail should do the trick.

Obviously on launch Mail tried to go directly to the last folder and mail position but the index was messed and it went for a walk in the limbo. With shift button pressed, Mail skip that behaviour and back to the senses. It realized that the index was corrupted and need to import all mails again. In 30 minutes all back normal.

When your Mail screwed up, remember, press SHIFT button while launching it. Hope that will save your day.