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Mail "Quit Unexpectedly"
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1942501" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>It is almost impossible to run a Mac without an AppleID associated with it. We are not talking iCloud, but AppleID. Those are two different things. Either she has an AppleID, or you do, to allow the Mac to communicate with Apple for just about everything that you do with a Mac. That includes reinstalling the OS on the Mac. SO, you can't reinstall unless you or she (or both) have an AppleID.</p><p></p><p>As for firmware, unless YOU set a firmware password, there is none on the system. And if you have forgotten any firmware password you may have set, there is very little that can be done to recover it except by Apple technicians, and if they do that, everything on the Mac will be obliterated. And if the firmware has a password, she would have to enter it on every cold boot. </p><p></p><p>One thing to try to sort out Mail is to reverse the order of the messages to be from oldest first, to newest first. That would be done through the Mail Preferences or Settings, depending on what version of macOS and what Mac you are asking about. I don't think you've told us that information. That would help. On my Mail (Sonoma 14.4.1), Settigns>Viewing is where you can select "Show most recent pessage at the top." I think you can also change the sort order by clicking on the caret beside "Date Received" in the column for that information in Mail and it will reverse the order. For recent-first, the caret should point down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1942501, member: 396914"] It is almost impossible to run a Mac without an AppleID associated with it. We are not talking iCloud, but AppleID. Those are two different things. Either she has an AppleID, or you do, to allow the Mac to communicate with Apple for just about everything that you do with a Mac. That includes reinstalling the OS on the Mac. SO, you can't reinstall unless you or she (or both) have an AppleID. As for firmware, unless YOU set a firmware password, there is none on the system. And if you have forgotten any firmware password you may have set, there is very little that can be done to recover it except by Apple technicians, and if they do that, everything on the Mac will be obliterated. And if the firmware has a password, she would have to enter it on every cold boot. One thing to try to sort out Mail is to reverse the order of the messages to be from oldest first, to newest first. That would be done through the Mail Preferences or Settings, depending on what version of macOS and what Mac you are asking about. I don't think you've told us that information. That would help. On my Mail (Sonoma 14.4.1), Settigns>Viewing is where you can select "Show most recent pessage at the top." I think you can also change the sort order by clicking on the caret beside "Date Received" in the column for that information in Mail and it will reverse the order. For recent-first, the caret should point down. [/QUOTE]
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