Hmm... that usually solves peculiar behavior. I'm stumped. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacob Schmude To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:36 PM Subject: Re: some recent OS X annoyances
Hi Yes, first thing I did, then I rebuilt my volume indexes. The problems still persist after doing this. On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Jerry Halatyn wrote: > Have you verified and repaired disk permissions? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jacob Schmude > To: General discussions on all topics relating tothe use of Mac > OS X by the blind <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:28 AM > Subject: some recent OS X annoyances > > > Hi everyone > > Well, it had to happen, my installation of OS X is starting to > act up > a little. I've noticed two rather annoying behaviors that have > cropped up within the past few weeks that were not present before. > > 1. While in finder, when browsing a folder, occasionally I will be > taken back to my home directory. I don't know why, and it seems to > happen at random, though it appears to be more common when browsing > remote folders rather than local ones. This can also happen when > command+tabbing back to the finder, it will simply put me in my home > directory for no reason. > 2. When initially starting the computer then loading up Safari, > sometimes cmd+l to open a web location will cause Safari to quit. > There's no dialogs, no errors, no crash reports. It just quits and > that's it, reminds me of the behavior I get in Linux when a GUI app > segfaults (though in Linux at least I can see an error message in > the > status console). This is the more annoying behavior by far, as I > have > to play around a little to get it working correctly again. Sometimes > moving to the address bar with the VO cursor will fix it, sometimes > not and I have to unlink the cursors and then click the mouse on the > address bar. > Has anyone seen either of these behaviors before or did I mess > something up somehow? I'm wondering if it might be time to give my > Mac an OS reinstall.
