do you have a disc you can backup to? if so, it's a snap. On May 17, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Hi, On may 7th, I deleted my Ray/Library/Preferences/Com.Apple.mail file and had to rebuild my mail account because Mail keeps getting sluggish on me about every ten days or so. In fact, sometimes, it gets so bad that it makes me wait about three to five minutes before I can do anything with it at all. I'm getting tired of this and sure wish I had some notion of how to either prevent it or quickly restore it to a more snappy response. If I knew how to do a Time Machine back up I would try that, but, I went to the disk utility ap and couldn't quite work out how to do a time Machine back up. Is it done from the Disk Utility or Time Machine itself? Time Machine itself doesn't appear that accessible. Thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!!! Now a proud Mac user!!!!! e-mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net skype: barefootedray > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > -- Jonnie Appleseed with his Hands-On Technologies reducing technology's disabilities one byte at a time > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >