Using Eudora v. 4.x, which I don't remember re-installing, but the computer crashes e.g. when stuffing a file while copying other files.
My hypothesis: any time two programs access files simultaneously, it crashes. Crashing when opening e-mails with attachments fits this (doesn't it?), because the attachment triggers a 2nd program to open it. At 3:16 PM -0400 6/2/05, Bill Holt wrote: >Have you reinstalled the email program, or checked to see if other >programs have the same result? Using MS Outlook, I used to see that >sort of thing as it seems that the program just naturally broke >down, over time ... kinda like me. > > >On Thursday, June 2, 2005, at 02:40 PM, Nelsn Helm wrote: > >>Running OS 9.2.2 on an old iBook, >>which locks up, freezes when I try to do two things at once, or >>open an email with an attachment. >> >>The error message is about "file sharing extension." >> >>What to do? | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>