[X Newbies] Crashing of text editor?

[J]

I will do all you have suggested after I have backed up today's work.

Thanks once again. :-)



On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 01:44  PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 1:29 PM -0500 3/28/04, J wrote:
>>> What version of the OS are you running?
>>
>> 10.2.6
>>
>>> For that matter, what are the particulars of the machine in question?
>>>
>>> Have you, as part of your trouble-shooting:
>>>    1) done a Safe Boot?
>>>    2) run Repair Permissions from the boot disk?
>>>    3) tried use of a "virgin" account?
>>>    4) reset PRAM?
>>
>> Didn't have to go that far, I trashed prefs and it fixed.
>
> If you're experiencing kernel panics often, you've only addressed a 
> symptom.
>
> If I were in your situation I would:
>    1) Reboot the machine, holding down Cmd-Opt-P-R until the startup 
> chime has sounded at least three times. This would reset the PRAM.
>    2) Upon releasing the above keys, I'd hold down the shift key as 
> the machine reboots once more. This initiates a Safe Boot and includes 
> a disk check & repair behind the scenes. At this step, it will 
> probably take a long time before the welcome screen appears. When it 
> does, the text "Safe Boot" should be displayed in the message area.
>    3) Once the machine finally boots, I'd open the Disk Utility 
> application (in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder). 
> I would select the boot disk and do the Repair Permissions.
>    4) I would then restart the machine and observe over time whether 
> the problems are still occurrent.
>
> I would also consider investing in the current Disk Warrior as perhaps 
> the only indispensable tool that's not shipped with current Macs.
> -- 
> 'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]
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