[G4] Apple applications not responding.

[Greg Manzie]

Hello David

This is a long shot, but do you have plenty of spare hard drive  
capacity?

I had this problem a couple of years ago and it turned out to be a  
lack of spare HD space on the system drive. The space was needed for  
the memory manager (formerly virtual memory on pre OSX).

You need about 2 gig spare as a minimum. There was an Apple knowledge  
base article about this, but I have forgotten the details.

When I cleaned out my HD, everything went back to normal including  
the missing mail.


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On 28/11/2006, at 11:38 PM, David Russell wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I am using a G4 1.4 Mhz OSX.3.9. When I started up this morning I  
> found that some of my Apple applications were not responding.  
> Initially it was Safari and Mail that would just bounce in the dock  
> and not do anything. I subsequently discovered that iCal, iPhoto  
> and a non-Apple utility -- World Clock -- were also not responding.  
> I did not look further but I bet that there are system-based  
> applications that are also not going to work. Otherwise the system  
> works fine and all my other apps open perfectly.
>
> I tried to repair permissions on the disk in question but Disk  
> Utility just hung and I had to force quit to get rid of it.
>
> I was able to start up from a remote disk and all the apps ran fine  
> from that. Except that I seem to have lost about six months worth  
> of mail and none of my cookies work.
>
> I was able to run Disk Utility on the dodgy disk from the remote  
> disk and it ran perfectly. I also ran Disk Warrior on the disk.  
> However, when I started from that disk there was no change.
>
> I am now running from my remote disk and I have been trying to find  
> out what might be wrong. But I figure this is the best place to  
> ask. I bet one of you gurus can tell me.
>
> I tried retrieve my lost mail using the import facilty in Mail but,  
> although I have two remote disks both containing complete clones of  
> the main start-up disk (which presumably contain copies of the Mail  
> software), the program couldn't find any other versions of Mail to  
> import from. So where has my mail gone and how can I get it back?  
> Or better, how can I get my usual start-up disk to the applications  
> on it as it should?
>
> Advice would be appreciated.
>
>
> David
>
>
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