Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-18 Thread Eric Dannewitz
type "reboot" Andrew Stiller wrote: On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: If you don't have the disks, you can reboot your Mac, and hold down the Apple and the S key, and that will dump you into the shell, where you can run fsck on the drive (it tells you what to type when you

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-18 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Duh. Guilty of not editing the message before hitting "send". You type "exit" to get out of the shell. Bruce K H Kau wrote: I believe on the Mac it's a "unix shell". type "exit", all in lower case, and press return. Andrew Stiller wrote: On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-18 Thread Bruce K H Kau
I believe on the Mac it's a "unix shell". type "exit", all in lower case, and press return. Andrew Stiller wrote: On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: If you don't have the disks, you can reboot your Mac, and hold down the Apple and the S key, and that will dump you into the

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 17, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: If you don't have the disks, you can reboot your Mac, and hold down the Apple and the S key, and that will dump you into the shell, where you can run fsck on the drive (it tells you what to type when you go into that mode). An excellent id

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Eric Dannewitz
There are a number of things you can try. First would be booting off the OS X 10.3 install disk, and running disk utility on your drives. If you don't have the disks, you can reboot your Mac, and hold down the Apple and the S key, and that will dump you into the shell, where you can run fsck o

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: If you quit and DON'T relaunch, does the system still hang? I can't quit w.o relaunching, because the hung system won't allow me to do so. If I force quit, the system still remains hung, so I have to go back and relaunch anyway. The

Re: [Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Christopher Smith
On 17-Aug-07, at 2:08 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: FinMac 2K4, Mac OS 10.3.9 This has been happening to me daily for a while: I leave Finale open w.o doing anything for a while. When I return to the computer I find that the whole thing has hung. Or rather, it is almost hung: the pointer i

[Finale] computer hangs

2007-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
FinMac 2K4, Mac OS 10.3.9 This has been happening to me daily for a while: I leave Finale open w.o doing anything for a while. When I return to the computer I find that the whole thing has hung. Or rather, it is almost hung: the pointer is stuck to something I didn't stick it to. When I p