Side Preview Panel in Mail not appearing

I've tried all previous suggestions to get my side preview panel to "pop" open when I move my curser to the left, but I still can't get it to appear. I just updated to Catalina 10.15.7. I want to see a preview of my emails before opening them. I used to be able to, but now it's gone.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Aug 24, 2022 9:27 AM

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Posted on Aug 24, 2022 11:54 AM

Okay I found the issue. I had "Always" set for "Show scroll bars:" in System Preferences > General. As soon as I switched it to "When scrolling", the left pointing cursor was available again and I could drag open the side preview.

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Aug 24, 2022 11:54 AM in response to Ahubz

Okay I found the issue. I had "Always" set for "Show scroll bars:" in System Preferences > General. As soon as I switched it to "When scrolling", the left pointing cursor was available again and I could drag open the side preview.

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Aug 24, 2022 11:43 AM in response to dialabrain

Thanks for your response. It's so frustrating. I just reread the old suggestions and tried resizing the email panel again. I had to wait for something to happen and it finally showed the side preview panel. I have no idea why it suddenly worked.

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