Won't do any harm from an iMac point of view. But if the Drobo/Aperture process is still running, you might muck that up...
Of course, if you have a recent back up, that won;t matter overly, other than from an irritation point of view. Regards Russell ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.sslmcs.co.uk/ Tel 01372389270 GPC rep East & West Sussex @drbrown1970 ---------------------------------------------------------- On 8 October 2012 11:15, Jonathan Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. > > My iMac seems to have completely frozen insofar that the screen has gone > black and will not respond to either keystrokes or mouse clicks. I have a > Drobo attached to it which houses my substantial Aperture library. The > Aperture library was/is in the process of rebuilding itself following > Aperture deciding to unexpectedly quit yesterday in the middle of upgrading > said library in order for it to be compatible with the software's latest > version. Nothing particularly unusual was happening when my iMac froze > just now. Aperture was sorting itself out in the background and I was > running safari, skype, mail, and ical - nothing too taxing. All of a > sudden a video I was watching on Safari froze and although I could move the > mouse around the screen there was no response from clicking it and I could > not switch between applications either by using the mouse or by using > command-tab. The drobo is still whirring away leading me to believe it is > still doing the Aperture work it was doing at the time. However, the > screen is now black and I believe this may be just a result of it going to > sleep. Nevertheless, I cannot wake it. I am tempted to force the iMac to > shutdown by holding down the power button and then restarting it. Someone > please tell me if this is a good or potentially very very bad idea. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jonathan Brady > Photography, Multimedia, Video > tel: +44(0) 7931 541 489 > Twitter: @HiredGunJB > LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jmebrady > web: http://www.jonathanbrady.net > email: [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
