[HM] Re: Bouncing icon in dock

[Duane Murphy]

--- At Tue, 4 May 2004 22:39:16 -0700, Jane Sprando wrote:

>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?

That does sound like there's a problem. One thing to try is to open the
Console (Applications/Utilities) and see if there are any messages sent
to the console that can help you determine what has happened. 

The first thing I tell people when they want to move to OS X is ditch
Classic. If a significant part of your computer work is to be done in an
application in Classic then you don't want to move to OS X. You should
upgrade the program to an OS X version if you can, find a different
program with the equivalent functionality, or don't upgrade to OS X. 

I don't use O, so I can't really help you out here. If you _really_ want
to OE instead of any of the other many OS X savvy email programs, then I
would scour the mac help web sites looking for clues; Apple Discussion
Boards, Mac OS X Hints, MacInTouch, and MacFixIt are a few that I read.
There are likely more. 

Sorry, I couldn't be of more help. Maybe other's have had a better experience.

 ...Duane

>> 
>> 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!)