[HM] Re: Bouncing icon in dock

[Jane Sprando]

Duane,  this is what happened tonight and the waiting didn't help. After I
read your message, I went to Preferences and set the Sleep for Classic to 30
minutes. I left the window for Outlook Express open and went to do some
other things. I came back about 45 minutes later and woke up the iMac. The
window for Outlook was a big white window and nothing else. I could not get
any response from the program.

So I clicked on OE icon in the dock and did a force quit. When I tried to
open it gain, the icon for 9 kept popping up, but didn't stay. I couldn't
open any program in Classic. I went to Pretences and selected Start Classic,
waited for a few minutes and nothing happened. I repeated all of these
again, waiting a few minutes each time, and Classic still did not start. So
I restarted again and Classic started up.

What a  missing here?

jane

> 
> First, stop restarting your iMac! With OS X there is almost no reason to
> restart your Mac. The only reason I restart is because some silly
> installer wants to restart or I update the system.
> 
> If you have an errant program, click and hold the mouse on the icon for
> the app in the dock. Select quit. If the app is not responding it will
> say force quit. Select it.
> 
> You can still use command-option-esc to kill programs.
> 
> For you current problem, I think you're being impatient. :-) I'm guessing
> that Classic has quit and you are not not only restarting the application
> but also Classic. That can take a while.
> 
> Go to System Preferences and choose Classic. Select the Advanced tab. You
> can now change the amount of time before Classic quits (goes to sleep).
> 
> You should also consider updating. Your OS 10.2.2 is old a crufty. Update
> to the latest 10.2 at least, if not 10.3 if you have it. (Panther has
> improved a lot of things!)
> 
> ...Duane