Thanks, I will try both.Jerry, how long does Mac Janitor take to run? Is it
something we may want to do over the weekend or does someone need to watch it
for prompts? ----- Original Message -----From: Jerry Freeman Date: Friday, May
26, 2006 9:47 amSubject: Re: MacGroup: System crashes and lost printersTo:
macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> Forgot to include the link for
MacJanitor, my mind is on early.> > [1]
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html> > > On May 26, 2006,
at 9:35 AM, Jerry Freeman wrote:> > > First, "backup your data asap" if you
have not done so. You > > problems may be software or hardware, hard to tell
without > > systematic elimination. The simple stuff first:> >> > 1. How much
HD space do you have available? If the disk is > near > > full that could be
the simple problem.> > 2. How much installed RAM is available? You may need
more.> > 3. Do you you have to reset the date and time after a systems > >
crash? Replacing the battery may be in order.> > 4. Run [1] Macjanitor,
freeware that does unix maintenance > that is > > probably not being done.> >
5. Simply reinstalling the software?or upgrading to a more > recent > >
version?then add you backed up data.> >> > On the hardware side, the usual
suspects are:> >> > 1. Failing HD. Inexpensive and simple to replace> > 2.
Logic board. not so inexpensive or easy to replace.> >> > On May 26, 2006, at
9:12 AM, usafdesigner at insightbb.com wrote:> >> >> I have a mac at work
running 10.2.8. A quicksilver, I think? > >> Recently we have been getting
frequent system crashes, about > 1 a > >> week. Applications are running
really slow and we spend a lot > of > >> time looking at the spinning beach
ball. Also, we keep > 'losing' > >> all the printers and have to reset the
print system. This > happened > >> once several months ago, again once last
week, then yesterday > it > >> happened twice and so far today it has happened
once.> >>> >> Any advice on the best way to try to get it back in shape? I > am
> >> afraid we are on the path to some serious problems.> >>> >> Thanks!> >>>
>> Diane Stinnett> >> >> >> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer
Society will> > | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway.> > | The
LCS Web page is .> > | List posting address: > > | List Web page: > > > > | The
next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will> | be June 27 at Pitt
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