Thanks Jerry, now I know what to do the next time an application locks up and I have to force-quit.
George Yankey On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 09:21 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Well sort of. If you ever had an application "unexpectedly quit" then > it crashed, but the system did not crash (as opposed to earlier OSes > where an application crash could bring the whole system down.). A > system crash is more where the whole thing just locks up and you have > to restart or shutdown and re-boot. Run the Console application > (located in your Utilities folder) and check the preferences. One of > them is to enable Console to open immediately and tell you what > happened when an application meets a premature end. It is very useful > for trying to figure out what is going on as you can copy and paste > the log into a email and send it to the developer. > > Jerry > > On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 07:19 PM, George H. Yankey wrote: > >> When I run System Profiler and check Log I get several items that end >> with " .crash log " ; for example Appleworks. crash log or Mail. >> crash log. What is a " crash log " ? Does that mean my system has >> crashed when using that application at some time in the past? Just >> wondering. >> >> George Yankey >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> >> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
