First off, I want to say that I'm so glad I made the switch from PC to Mac 3 years ago.
I bought a used 4-year-old Macbook Pro and it's still going strong. No problems.
I work in the IT industry and I'm glad I do because all of the other PC's I've owned needed heavy maintenance throughout their lifespan (which was usually 3 years).
Anyway, I've never had a problem with my Mac until now.
The other day I was creating a website so I downloaded an FTP app (off of Apple.com's site) to upload the files.
After installing that app, many of my other apps disappeared - Safari, Open Office, Mail, iWeb, etc.
I was able to get all of those working again except for Mail.
I followed some advice on this board and downloaded Pacifist. This allowed me to extract and install Mail back onto my laptop.
However, once installed it wouldn't load up because the version was lower than my OS.
So I installed the latest Combo pack and extracted Mail from that using Pacifist.
Mail would then 'work' (as I saw Mail in the top toolbar), but there was no GUI accompanying the toolbar.
And I had to force quit it in order to get out of the program.
Does anyone have any advice how to get this working again without needing to reinstall the OS?
Thanks!
I bought a used 4-year-old Macbook Pro and it's still going strong. No problems.
I work in the IT industry and I'm glad I do because all of the other PC's I've owned needed heavy maintenance throughout their lifespan (which was usually 3 years).
Anyway, I've never had a problem with my Mac until now.
The other day I was creating a website so I downloaded an FTP app (off of Apple.com's site) to upload the files.
After installing that app, many of my other apps disappeared - Safari, Open Office, Mail, iWeb, etc.
I was able to get all of those working again except for Mail.
I followed some advice on this board and downloaded Pacifist. This allowed me to extract and install Mail back onto my laptop.
However, once installed it wouldn't load up because the version was lower than my OS.
So I installed the latest Combo pack and extracted Mail from that using Pacifist.
Mail would then 'work' (as I saw Mail in the top toolbar), but there was no GUI accompanying the toolbar.
And I had to force quit it in order to get out of the program.
Does anyone have any advice how to get this working again without needing to reinstall the OS?
Thanks!