> >Jon Bradbury wrote: > >>Powermail crashed on Friday evening, now whenever try and start it it >>just locks up beach balling (left it for over 20mins once), starts up ok >>in another users side, but under this user just fails to start, tried >>trashing the prefs but beyond that stuck on ideas... (rebuild database? >>if so how do you do it if you can't start powermail?) >> >>Oh its version 5.2.1b1 on a G4 iBook running 10.4.1 > >First, download the final 5.2.1 version instead of the beta. >
I did that earlier today so thats about the 5th version of PM in about 4weeks this machines on to fix problems. >>starts up ok in another users side > >Do you mean that it works when accessing the same database files from >another Mac OS X user account? If so, make sure you have read/write >access to all the files in the PowerMail database folder. > No, the other user of the machine can start up his own (as it happens blank DB), or when I shift the DB over to my own machine, I can start up my own PM, but when I switch users and try and access this DB I get the same crashy problem. >You can try the first aid options by launching PM with the command and >options keys pressed. Nope it just locks solid > If the problem persists, can you take a sample of >the PowerMail process with Activity Monitor (select the PowerMail >application in the list, then choose Sample from the Process menu), save >the result in a file and send it to me? I'll send you a dupe of this message with it attached Regards Jon
