[Ti] mail.app problem...but different this time

[arjan.bos at icu.nl]

On 13 feb 2004, at 18:37, T Molnar wrote:

> Thanks guys,
> actually the app was somehow just not responding at all, whether in 
> training mode or not.
> I reset the filter and its working, but these small things seem to be 
> happening with too much frequency
>
> What I found was that the app was not be working suddenly when before 
> all was fine.
> This kind of "out of the blue" problem seems to be happening 
> repeatedly with some of my app's since I did the panther upgrade over 
> top of my previous Jaguar system.
> I keep getting small things like this happening
>
> My MS word problem the same, why should there be any corruption on 
> files which were installed only a week ago?
> Trouble shooting is a bit more difficult I guess because I was so OS 9 
> proficient, but this is a new beast, this OS X.

One other thing you might want to look into is the amount of free space 
on your drive. If it is too full, then OS X, as many other *nix-en, has 
problems allocating enough free space for the file. If the allocation 
fails then the file thats written will become corrupt. Since preference 
files are read and written very often, these files are your first sign 
of trouble.

As a rule of thumb, keep 10%-20% of your partitions capacity empty.

HTH, but as always YMMV

Arjan

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