Jay Yoo


Tech, art, music, fashion and food enthusiast. Avid minimalist, scratch cook, and tinkerer. Capacity for faith and rebellion. Father and Koyono Founder. Eternity is in love with the productions of time. - William Blake.

Apple Mail Preview Pane Issue Fixed

Out of nowhere the preview pane in Apple Mail on my MacBook disappeared on me. It was an annoying disruption to workflow and I simply could not let it go. It had to be fixed!

Unfortunately, after numerous searches, I could not find much information other than the usual rebuild mailbox, delete .plist, boot in safe mode, reset PRAM, switch to use classic layout, etc.  

After trying all of the above to no avail, I decided tackle the problem doing the usual: fiddle with it until something works. In the end, while in classic layout, I simply opened a new Viewer Window, which unlocked the pane. The pane in the first window remained stuck, so I just closed it.

Easy enough. If you run into the same problem, try doing the same.

UPDATE: I wish I found this thread last night. You also might want give this a try.

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