On Wed, 5 May 2021 at 15:55, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you all for your help over the past few months with my mac freezing, > crashing, having applications crash and other miscellaneous crises. > > After some more testing, I've narrowed this down to my user account. In > other words, when I create another user, log is as that, and work for a > while, I've never had any of these issues. I'm not 100% sure this is the > case, but there is a marked difference. > > Since I am the only user of this Mac, there is only the one account (now > plus the test account). Obviously, I don't want to create a second account > and delete this one - there is too much data, history, etc. in everything > from documents to cookies that I'd lose. > > So, I want to repair my user account. I don't have specific causes of the > crashes (the logs show different things each time). I am seeking > suggestions on what I can do to repair this account (and diagnose if > needed), so I can continue to use it. > > Also, I may replace this Mac with a new one soon, and I will want to avoid > transferring a broken user to the new Mac. > > FYI: iMac 21" Late 2015 running MacOS 11.3 > > Any help is much appreciated! > One addition to the advice from Macs R We: in my experience, fonts can cause the problems you describe. Look to see what fonts are in ~/Library. Sometimes there are "duplicates" of Apple system fonts or fonts provided by applications. Apple's font management can check for duplicates and sometimes flag bad fonts, but in my experience it sometimes misses problem fonts. You could start by removing no-longer needed or duplicate fonts. Also note that there are many new high-quality OpenType fonts that are replacing older fonts, so be prepared to look for a replacement if one of your "signature" fonts turns out to be the problem. Take note of the advice to create the new user with the same uid and gid. -- George N. White III
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