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<FONT FACE="Calisto MT"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14.0px'>On 5/17/08 11:57 AM, Colin Buttimer wrote:<BR>
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Dear List,<BR>
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My MacBook Pro is shutting down while unattended. I'd much appreciate any assistance list members can give. <BR>
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For the first time in 30 or so months, I experienced a complete freeze while halfway through watching a DVD. I had to force reboot and subsequently experienced the spinning beachball which forced me to do further reboots. I thought I managed to isolate this to damaged Firefox preferences and deleted these after logging into a clean account and also into safe boot mode. However, I'm now finding that if I leave my machine unattended playing music it turns itself off. Is there a crash/system log or similar I can access to begin to identify the issue? <BR>
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I have backed up to a 500gb backup drive using Time Machine, but am unsure how to go about reinstating a version of the system from before the crash. <BR>
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Any advice would be much appreciated.<BR>
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All the best, Colin<BR>
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Are you plugged in, or running on battery, when the MBP shuts itself down?</SPAN></FONT>
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