Martin Pickering writes, <FWIW I stop Classic before I go to bed and I restart it in the morning. I leave OSX running and only reboot it once a fortnight or so.
Experience has shown that this eliminates 99% of problems that I used to have with emailer (and other apps). Classic starts up in about 20 seconds so it's really no imposition.> Hmmm, well, since getting OS X, the only time I reboot my Mac at all any more is if I want to run directly in OS 9, or when I reboot it at the suggestion that doing so might fix a problem. Usually, the problem is my Sims game. Practically always, in fact, since this business a few days ago with my CE not working, which Chris said rebooting the Mac would probably fix (and it did) has been the only time I've had ANY serious malfunctions with ANY app (other than the darn game, that is, which seems to wonk out or crash on me if I breathe on it!) since getting the G4 and OS X. Shutting down Classic at night, even if it was JUST Classic -- in my case, if I was going to be doing that, I might as well just shut down the whole thing at night before bed like I used to do before the G4, because the reason I like to leave it on isn't actually "I'm on OS X now and I can!" but because leaving the Mac on all the time means I can leave, yes, that silly game on all the time too (it takes 5-10 minutes to boot up, so I only shut it down when I have to get into its guts or do something with it actually booted on OS 9!). And of course the game is OS 9 (I started playing it on my Beige) which I now play in Classic Mode. So if I shut down Classic, I have to shut the game down too. <Safari occasionally crashes if Emailer tries to download messages at a (presumably) critical moment. But Safari is quite prone to crashing without emailer's help!> Really? Safari has never once crashed on me! And yes, I've had it up and actively running (downloading stuff) while using CE. In fact, if I have a long download (which happens quite a bit, since I'm on dialup), I've been known to check my email while waiting for the download to finish. If it's a REALLY long download, and I get really interesting or important email, I even reply to the email while the download is still in progress! <Duplicate messages appear in my inbox quite frequently. I simply delete them. This is a recognised "foible" of running emailer in Tiger Classic and I've learned to live with it.> Wow! Other than this business a few days ago, the only "recognized foible" I experienced with CE in Tiger Classic was the "DS_Store" unpack messages thing, which I mentioned here and Chris told me how to fix. Duplicate messages? I ONLY get those from THIS list, and I think that's because of how this list is set up. On my other lists (LEM lists: the G-List, the Powerbooks list and the Swap List), hitting "reply" just puts the list's email address in. When I hit reply to an email I get from THIS list, I get just the individual whose list email I'm replying to (not the list addy [email protected]), so I have to hit "reply to all" if I want my reply to go to the whole list (which, duh, is the whole point of being on the list!). But even so, that gives me TWO "To" addresses -- the person who sent the post I'm replying to, PLUS the group one. Sometimes I forget to change the address so that only the list gets it, and I end up either sending an email intended for the list to one person, or sending a "duplicate" email that this person is going to get twice, i.e., both on-list and off-list. I get dupe messages from people on this list all the time, because I think they either haven't noticed this, or like me, they did, but they were in a rush or just forgot to make sure that their list emails were ONLY going to the list address! In any case, this duplicate emails thing has only applied, for me, with THIS list, and it's been going on since I was still on my Beige, with no OS X of any kind! Well. Time to go mess in the guts of my Sims game...yes, again! (Gosh, why do I play this game?!) ~Yersinia. ________ "The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected." ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
