<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 27 Sep 2009, at 06:24, Kent wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> I'm not sure what Applejack is? </td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div>Kent - Applejack is a (free) 'repair'/maintenance utility (that I thought every Apple user had... !)</div><div><br></div><div>When installed (link below), It runs in Unix under single-user start-up (Apple-S, upon startup).<br><br></div><div>Does file system check, repairs permissions (not yet under Snow Leopard), cleans caches, deletes virtual memory, checks preferences.....</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667">http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667</a></div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if it will help in your case, if it is a physical problem. Applejack fixes software issues only.</div><div>But I use it as a first resort, if anything starts to behave strange.</div><div><br></div><div>At the > prompt, when started in single-user mode, Type<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Applejack auto restart <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and come back in 30 minutes</div><div><br></div><div>T.</div><div><br></div></body></html>