At 4:34 PM -0500 on Thursday, September 30, 2004, Alex Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Mittwoch, 29. September 2004 15:26 Uhr Mirko Kranenburg >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >That seems to be a very plausible explanation! >> > >> >Future releases of DragThing and/or PowerMail should handle >> the matter >> >more gracefully, though. >> >But: the support for PowerMail by Dragthing is in itself a very good >> >thing, as way too many apps focus on Mail and Entourage only. >> > >> >Mirko >> > >> > >> >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:19:11 -0400, C. A. Niemiec >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>Mine was resolved by switching off DragThing - if you have that >> >> >>installed try disabling it. >> >> > >> >> >What bothers me now: I always thought, that in OSX all the >> >> >applications are working in their own areas of the RAM. That fact >> >> >that the presence of one affects another app is somewhat >> irritating. >> >> >> >> I thought it was that the newer version of DragThing messages >> >> PowerMail to get a count of unread messages in the inbox >> to display >> >> in its docks, and that disrupts the First Aid recovery somehow. I >> >> don't think it interacts any other way. >> >> >> Yes that seems to explain the reason why. BTW DragThing - as >> excellent as it is - has another little drawback in >> combination with ReadIris 9.0, if someone uses this app too: >> when launching ReadIris from DT ReadIris does not display his >> working window, the application remains unusable. A normal >> launch from finder does not show this problem. > >Good idea would be to contact DT's author (James is pretty good at >responding). He has addressed this problem on the DragThing message board (<http:// www.dragthing.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000023>). The workaround he suggests is to change DragThing's preferences (change Advanced->Update Application Icons to "Never"). He seems to think the problem is with PM's AppleScript handling. Emily
