>4. Bill Bandes' "tough medicine" advice is to reformat the >hard drive, and it seems that's my last alternative. > >Any other ideas? (I'm reading the digest of this list)
Well, like you already think, there could be a conflict of some sort, and that is just a long drawn out testing process. Or it could be that something else is corrupting a file (like your Retrospect), again, a long process to track down. Or there could be another emailer file that is corrupt and needs to be replaced (someone else mentioned this as a possibility, such as the address book). Also a long process of swapping files until the bad one causes a crash. So it boils down to how much is your time worth. Certainly the format/reinstall is an option (and it never really hurts to do that from time to time anyway). But that also will take time, and isn't guarenteed to fix it (if it is a conflict, or a corrupt file that gets reinstalled from backup). I would probably start by disabling all extensions you don't need to have running (this includes making do without backups or some other "extras" you might have installed that you normall really want, but can live without). See if the problem comes back. If so, I would move on to swapping out emailer related files and test to see if the problem comes back. Hopefully you will eventually hit on one, that without (well, really, with a fresh copy of it) keeps it from crashing. And finally, if you are adventurous, you can install MacsBug, and hopefully when it freezes, you can drop into the debugger, and you can see what application was at the front, and what it was trying to do when it froze (that will help tell you if it is Emailer related, or if something else took control of the Mac at the time of the freeze, and what action was the source of the freeze). But that takes a bit of know how on the part of MacsBug to get anything useful out of it. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
