At 2:51 PM -0700 on 4/10/01, Sidney Ho wrote:
>From just up the Charles river, Mass Ave. or Memorial drive..., an MIT geek
>needs a Harvard guy to sort you out, eh? ;-)
If that's what I need, why do I think I'm in real trouble? ;-)
>This advice can be followed in a quick and dirty way (similar to my reply
>elsewhere to Tom K) or via new CLEAN installs. The more your system or
>application crashes the more it will crash. This is a clear case of
>System/Finder and/or iCab corruption . . . Even better, clean
>reinstall your
>complete system. BE SURE all these crashes have already damaged your system.
Not so fast, Ho!!! ;-)
Your Puritan Harvard roots are showing. "Clear case of corruption", "CLEAN
install", trash the impurities, etc, etc. Couldn't I just save a lot of
effort by accusing the Duo of being a witch and throwing it into the Mystic
River? ;-) (believe me, I've come close)
On a more serious note, my system itself isn't crashing; it's iCab, and
*only* iCab, which is quitting with Type (1,2,3) errors. Of course, once
that happens, you pretty much have to restart. Other programs don't seem
to be affected. And I've got similar behavior on two 68040's running two
different Systems (one with 7.6.1, one with 8.1). So I'm pretty skeptical
that it's a Finder or System corruption problem that's to blame.
I was hoping to hear whether others have had similar problems, or whether
I'm just having some extension conflict that I've missed somehow. So far
I've heard from one lister (off-list) who suggested that I'm not alone.
I did hear from iCab technical support (very fast!), who suggested trashing
the "iCab Preferences" file (only that file) in the iCab prefs folder, and
that seems to have improved things on the machine running 8.1. I now think
the problem on the other machine is related to using multiple monitors.
I'll post if I find any good solutions.
Meanwhile, can I just send the thing to you, Sydney, for a proper
cleansing? ;-)
Regards,
Jeff
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