Hi Chris, "Applespell.service" is the regular spell checker that starts up for text entry on all web pages, etc. It's a normal service, but what isn't normal is that it's somehow showing up as a runaway CPU hog. Usually quitting such a process once in Activity Monitor should fix things. What's more worrisome is that Kari reports this is a recurrent problem, even after she repaired permissions. My only other thoughts are that she try the new 10.6.8 update or, if the problems still occur, apply the 10.6.8 combo update. Repairing permissions usually works to solve problems, even though it only resets the permissions of Apple's software to their default appropriate values. This is because many of the issues are caused by third party software installations that access the default Mac applications, but might leave them in odd states, locking out permissions to read or write files by the system or other applications, depending on circumstances.
The regular software update will update your system based on the receipts that indicate what applications you have installed on your system. Usually, this works perfectly fine, but in some instances the regular software update will miss a dependency. In that case, if you experience problems following a software update, you can go back and use the larger, combo update. Combo updates are also usually applied when doing a major version update (e.g. from 10.6.3 to 10.6.8). HTH. Cheers, Esther Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Sounds like Apple Spell's what's doing it. I've heard of that, but I'm not > exactly sure what it is. > > Chris. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
