RE: PM on a G5 iMac Problem

[Alex Newman]

 PM (5.0 or 5.1) crashes on my new iMac. I used Apple's Setup 
 Assistant and when PM crashed I dragged PM it over via 
 AirPort and that crashed. Lastly, I downloaded a fresh copy 
 of PM and that one crashed. I have repaied permissions and 
 run all the maintenance,
 
 For whatever reason 8.02 of Stuffit Expander also crashes 
 whenever something needs to be expanded.

Which OS X version are you running (e.g., 10.3.3)?

Alex Newman

RE: Re(2): First Aid/Compact Database crashing...

[Alex Newman]

 Mittwoch, 29. September 2004 15:26 Uhr   Mirko Kranenburg  
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 That seems to be a very plausible explanation!
 
 Future releases of DragThing and/or PowerMail should handle 
 the matter 
 more gracefully, though.
 But: the support for PowerMail by Dragthing is in itself a very good 
 thing, as way too many apps focus on Mail and Entourage only.
 
 Mirko
 
 
 On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:19:11 -0400, C. A. Niemiec 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Mine was resolved by switching off DragThing - if you have that 
  installed try disabling it.
  
  What bothers me now: I always thought, that in OSX all the 
  applications are working in their own areas of the RAM. That fact 
  that the presence of one affects another app is somewhat 
 irritating.
  
  I thought it was that the newer version of DragThing messages 
  PowerMail to get a count of unread messages in the inbox 
 to display 
  in its docks, and that disrupts the First Aid recovery somehow. I 
  don't think it interacts any other way.
 
 
 Yes that seems to explain the reason why.  BTW DragThing - as 
 excellent as it is - has another little drawback in 
 combination with ReadIris 9.0, if someone uses this app too: 
 when launching ReadIris from DT ReadIris does not display his 
 working window, the application remains unusable. A normal 
 launch from finder does not show this problem.

Good idea would be to contact DT's author (James is pretty good at
responding).

Regards,
Alex Newman