Tim, I own a software development company, all our products run on both Mac and Windows so I'm all too familiar with weird program interactions. With thousands of customers all over the world, there is a constant stream of weird things we need to deal with.
I recently moved from a quad G5 machine, to an 8 core Mac Pro where I carefully, painfully, reinstalled everything as my "old" machine had a lot of old junk on it. That said, I DO run a LOT of software. I've been using Powermail since version 2, and Default Folder since version 1. For the most part, BOTH products have been very reliable. I known CTMDEV recently moved from Codewarrior to xCode while at the same time Apple has been trying to stabilize OS 10.5. I carry Powermail on an external firewire drive between my home office and "work" office. I have exactly the same issues although my work machine is a fairly clean Intel Macbook. I don't think my issue is machine related. As I examine my crash logs, I see 11 Powermail crashes in the past 11 days on just my home machine. Sometimes I go 2 days between crashes. I receive over 1200 emails per day, so it's not like I'm not using Powermail EVERY day. In fact, Powermail is my most used application. It's not worth my time to debug the problem myself... If I discovered it WAS Default Folder...I'd not change; Default Folder is VERY useful. As I mentioned before, it always seems to happen during a drag event; I can't say for sure, but I think it's a threading issue when I'm dragging and email arrives. At one point I thought it was the notification sound, so I turned that off. (Quicktime has caused issues in the past.) That wasn't the issue. Activity monitor shows over 100 processes running yet overall my machine is very stable. I'm wondering if this is a widespread Powermail issue, and if so, perhaps CTMDEV will spend a bit of time on solving it. If not, well, then I'll just keep moving forward hoping that some combination of updates will resolve MY issue. One thing I'm not considering AT ALL is moving from Powermail! I want CTMDEV to be very successful, and continue PM development.... +-------------------------------------------+ Bill Schjelderup -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-------------------------------------------+ >On Sunday, March 23, 2008, T.L. Miller sent forth: > >>On 3/23/08, at 9:44 AM, Bill Schjelderup [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> >>>I too have been having a LOT more "quits" with Powermail since 10.5. I >>>too use DefaultFolder, but I'd say 99% of these failures occur during >>>drag events, i.e. when I'm dragging a message to a folder. >> > >Have you tried removing "Default Folder" and retesting? > >I have followed all these reports over the years with interest, not only >because software like PowerMail, i.e. apps that perform what is now a >well understood function like e-mail, "should just work" as the mantra >goes. I am interested also because I've rarely had a problem with the >package and that is with around 7 years of use. I have used and >continue to use my Mac in a fairly vanilla configuration when it comes >to apps that tweak how the finder or operating system in general >behaves. I think the clue lies there. > >I work in the IT field and one option that suggests itself quite a bit - >at least with Windows systems - is that of starting over and layering on >the software cleanly and testing after each addition. Apps such as >DefaultFolder should be checked quite thoroughly in such testing given >what they do. I have a case right now between IBM's "Via Voice" and a >host of apps on a client's eMac. I can't prove it outright until I >remove the app and if necessary go through the above procedure. >Certainly the logs suggest that it is at least partly to blame. > >Once you've managed to isolate the guilty apps, I would think that you >have a choice to make, at least until the companies in question can get >their act together. What do you need to do your job / live your life / >whatever? Neither CTMDEV nor Apple is responsible for anything other >than their own stuff, beyond certain obvious assumptions of stability in >the recommended vanilla environment. > >Just my 2 cents. > > >-- >Tim Lapin >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Intel iMac OS 10.4.11 PowerMail 5.6.1 1 GB RAM 250 GB HD > >
