Unless someone has a brilliant solution, only advice I can offer is trashing the "MacTCP DNR" file out of the system folder whenever things get a bit unstable, and quiting from iCab whenever I have finished using it.
I've been doing this for a while now, and things have been going much more smoothly. iCab still crashes occasionally if I interrupt a download or something, but it works fine as long as I just let it go through its paces. Thanks for the help, Marc!
Peter,
iCab must have seen me writing to you - just after that have had a rash of iCab, Explorer and Eudora spontaneously crashing. Seems to get to this about every few months.
I assumed there might also be a corruption of the current communication settings, so decided on trashing them too for a real clean sweep. But before doing so, noted the settings on paper, and saved them physically by exporting to another folder. Then did all the trashing, restarted, and re-entered as necessary. (Two or three minutes in total.)
To do that, from the "Remote Access" control panel menus I opened up the Configurations panel for it and for both Modem and TCP/IP panels. First write down the details, then export all the separate configs to a new folder as a backup - you can always bring them back if things go pear-shaped. Possibly worth backing these up, too, at some point. If you've got a bunch of different configs for each like I have (office, road, home, France, Australia type thing) one folder with separate folders within for "Remote Access", "TCP/IP" and "Modem" might simplify rebuilding at a later date.
Then delete the following from the Preferences folder:
- Internet Preferences - Modem Preferences - Remote Access (whole folder *) - TCP/IP Preferences
- iCab's whole cache folder, in preferences folder ** - Explorer's cache in "MS Internet Cache" folder
- and of course the original "MacTCP DNR" form the System Folder
Restart, do a little quick typing back in of the three configs areas, and begin with rather a fresh slate!
* suspect the ever growing "Remote Access Log" in here, may have been the cause of some problems back when I let my system partition fall very low on memory.
** seem to remember someone saying they trash this on a daily basis.
Marc
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