Desktop icons disappear when mail is open and then return when mail is closed

[ChesterL]

When trying to learn how to select several e-mails to save or delete, I did something unknowingly that 1) put the mail drop-downs above the inbox, so I must point above the inbox to have those drop-sown reappear and 2) puts the desktop and any open files somewhere--hiding behind the e-mail, I think, because the appear immediately once I close e-mail.

This is not what I want! I have 2 monitors, an iMac running Mountain Lion and am using Mail.app (6.5)

Any advice out there to get things back to normal--so the mail drop-downs and the desktop are not hidden?

[bobtomay]

1) right click on the top bar of Mail and select whichever you want to view instead of the 'Hide Toolbar'.

2) don't understand what you're explaining

[toMACsh]

CL, what OS version do you have? (Are you using Spaces or Mission Control?)

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