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[Greg Manzie]

Hello Lisa

I don't know if this helps, but I had a similar problem in Panther  
when my HD containing the operating system was too full. The  
equivalent of OS 9 virtual memory (the memory manager in OS 10) needs  
quite a bit of spare drive space to perform its function.  
Particularly with things like Photoshop (check your scratch disk  
preferences). When it is close to the limit, it starts the symptoms  
that you are experiencing. In my case as time went on, it also  
started to spread to other applications. Mail, Keyboard, Safari and  
Word too (which got some of the blame) from memory.

I moved my large iTunes library to another HD and everything went  
straight back to normal. I now make sure that I have a minimum of  
about 15% spare capacity on my Operating System hard drive partition  
(20% is probably better but about 2 Gig as a minimum).

As Tiger uses more HD space than previous OS's, I have had to install  
a bigger internal drive. I now run two 120 Gig drives internally on a  
G4 400 Yikes (OS 10.4.5).

If you move your iTunes or iPhoto library, make sure you read the  
instructions from Apple properly first.

I think there are knowledge base articles about both of these issues  
on the Apple site.

Good luck.

Regards

Greg Manzie
Director
Glyde Gallery Conservation
5 Glyde Street
Mosman Park
Western Australia 6012

On 05/03/2006, at 1:18 PM, lbhammond at comcast.net wrote:

>
> Hello.
> my G4iBook/os10.3.3 began keyboard symptoms while in the mail  
> program last
> 10/05.
> These were first: no response to the "reply","reply all" both in  
> the mail window
> and in the main mail tool bar.  "forward" and others seemed ok.
> Then the keyboard started to not respond to "delete", then typing  
> would decrease
> and finally not accept more that one letter to a line. Ultimately,  
> the "send"key
> won't respond. Ultimately, the keyboard symptoms migrate into  
> "apple works and
> text-edit".
> I have had the apple store people do software repairs and hardware  
> checks and
> clean reinstalls and archive installs and  then
>  give me a brand new G4 iBook with os 10.4 and all the updates. and  
> then the
> symptoms reappeared on the new machine that night!?.
> and the apple store people went thru it all again but tried  
> different things,
> including trashing and rebuilding the mail plist and tried trashing my
> administrator accounts and rebuilding and trying with their  
> personal accounts in
> my programs, andever kind of custom reinstall for mail.....and  
> everything they
> could think of.
>  At least twice during all of these attempts, apple used their  
> hardrives to
> backup my info: one of these times they unknowingly used a corrupt  
> hard drive!
> The other times they used my backup for the data transfer.
>   The software and applications I have and use are not advanced:  
> iphoto, itunes,
> mail, epson perifreals, palm handheld, adobe photoshop elements.
>
> The things I have tried to keep saved to my desktop are: my desk  
> top text files
> and the updated Quicken 14.0.2 data files.
>
> I cannot give you an exact play by play nor have I been given every  
> repair
> report as apple did not generate a customer copy each time.
>
> I currently cannot use my mail program. I was told at the apple  
> store, that now
> they don't know what it could be and that I will have to send it to  
> cupertino
> for repair.
> I don't know what to do.
> Please help me.--
> Lisa b.Hammond
> Production Design & Styling
> 206.579.4550
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