Lion, it's apps, and it's processes are far from perfectly sandboxed. If I'm in an application and I get the Beach Ball of Death AKA BBOD AKA Busy Busy Busy Busy), I consider it a lucky day when Lion actually allows me to force quit the app without the rest of the system getting flaky. Most times I just save my work and restart the system at that point.
Bryan On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > Actually, rebooting didn't even cross my mind as that is > more of a Windows way of doing things. Macs are unix systems > which certainly doesn't mean that they don't get sick, but that > each running application essentially runs in its own little > bubble in which it has protection from all the other processes. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
