Comments on: Disable Mail Animations in Mac OS X Lion

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:53:13 +0000

Does anyone know how to disable the animation that occurs when multiple messages are selected in Classic view? Each new one slides into the viewer and if the messages are large, you can accidentally select more than you want because Mail won’t keep up.

I tried this command to expose available animation defaults but it shows nothing, not even the ones listed above.

defaults read com.apple.Mail | grep -i anim

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:03:43 +0000

I never noticed these animations until after I read this article, ha! Now that I see them, I don’t really mind them, but I like them to be faster (not eliminated entirely). I’d like the same for the iCal page flip–speedier, not nixed. Any ideas?

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:13:37 +0000

Thanks, good catch. Was wondering why the original hint wasn’t working on my Mac.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:42:06 +0000

thanks for the fix. sometimes it’s the little stuff that matters.

By: Mohd Reza

Mohd Reza — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:32:44 +0000

Your application very lot of 1 time u refresh after ur iphone gd work

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:45:17 +0000

I have tried this, and verified using “defaults read com.apple.Mail…”, restarted Mail, and rebooted the computer, but it still does not work. I have also tried with a lower case m in com.apple.mail. Am I missing something?

By: Ola

Ola — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:21:54 +0000

THANK YOU for showing me this. I use Mail as my primary communications tool, and those pesky animations have been bugging me since the start, stealing my time.

Thanks again.

By: pk

pk — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:10:28 +0000

This does not work for case-sensitive file systems, you need to change the case of the file:

com.apple.mail

Not the lack of capital “M”.

By: Disable Lion Mail Animations

Disable Lion Mail Animations — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:09:21 +0000

[...] Source < defaults, Lion > « Resuminator [...]

By: Parakeet

Parakeet — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:39:26 +0000

All of these new animations are straight out of iOS, getting us primed for the full switchover I guess…

By: Joe Ferrante

Joe Ferrante — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:51:43 +0000

to disable the send animation all together where the messages slides up out of the screen when you click send.

defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool YES