on 18/11/02 22:40, Amber Rhea at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I posted a few days ago, lately I have been having to force quit OS X > Mail a lot, due to randomly getting the incessant spinning beachball which > will not stop, and the application will not respond to any keystrokes. No > one replied to my post to offer any suggestions as to why Mail is suddenly > behaving this way, but the cause doesn't bother me as much as the possible > effects - how potentially damaging is it, really, to force quit often? I > imagine it would be different under OS X than OS 9, but I know it's still > not the ideal thing to do.
It's hard to tell for sure, but when you force quit an application, damages to files can happen if the application was writing to disk. I would imagine, although I don't have any certitude, that preference files and documents could be damaged if the application is just in the middle of updating those. Then, under some circumstances, the application might have problem recovering from those conditions when launched again, which could result in additional problems. It always depends on how the application was written to deal with abnormal conditions. Some don't always behave gracefully... I'm not sure about the file structure used by Mail since I haven't used it. I would be tempted to suggest you remove the preference file, don't throw it a way, just move it out of the Library/Preferences directory, in your home directory and launch Mail again. See what happens. I would imagine that the file would be named 'com.apple.Mail' or something similar. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/RV: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
