Re: OS X tossing prefs

2004-04-05 Thread Dylan Moore
I get this and I get it often. what does it for me is when I start running out of hard drive space, mac os X sort of sacrifices its prefs rather than dumping what i'm working on.. which would be nice, except none of the times have I actually *ran out of space*, i've just gotten down to 100mb or

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 30, 2004, at 8:41 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 30/03/04 19:53, Hoju Dingo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if (like "real Unix systems" 8-) ) that the virtual memory swap files could be put in a separate partition (at least from the system files) which would then not cause th

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-30 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 30/03/04 19:53, Hoju Dingo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It would be nice if (like "real Unix systems" 8-) ) that the virtual > memory swap files > could be put in a separate partition (at least from the system files) > which would then > not cause this problem. Of course one is RAM limited by

Re: OS X tossing prefs ? To Partition or not to partition ...

2004-03-30 Thread Harry D . Corsover
On Mar 30, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Hoju Dingo wrote: On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Harry D. Corsover wrote: On Mar 30, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Hoju Dingo wrote: I'm currently running OS X 10.2.6 on a Pismo/400Mhz/512MB/40GB with 5 partitions: 12GB main partition with OSX/OS9; 6GB partition wit

Re: OS X tossing prefs ? To Partition or not to partition ...

2004-03-30 Thread Hoju Dingo
On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Harry D. Corsover wrote: On Mar 30, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Hoju Dingo wrote: I'm currently running OS X 10.2.6 on a Pismo/400Mhz/512MB/40GB with 5 partitions: 12GB main partition with OSX/OS9; 6GB partition with previous OSX version; 2 8GB partitions for da

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-30 Thread Harry D . Corsover
On Mar 30, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Hoju Dingo wrote: I don't know if it is relevant but I've experienced loss of OS X preferences for Mail periodically. It occurs mainly when I'm using a number of applications but particularly Safari and Mail which seem to be memory hungry and when I've only (!!) had

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-30 Thread Hoju Dingo
Hi Folks, I don't know if it is relevant but I've experienced loss of OS X preferences for Mail periodically. It occurs mainly when I'm using a number of applications but particularly Safari and Mail which seem to be memory hungry and when I've only (!!) had around 500MB free disk space on the

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 29/03/04 14:11, "George Mogiljansky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious, too. My non-PowerBook G3-upgraded 8500 > has started to 'break', i.e. Firefox 0.8 has refused > to open today but worked normally yesterday. I suspect > bad Ram or bad Ram placement since I recently added > some Dimm

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-29 Thread George Mogiljansky
I'm curious, too. My non-PowerBook G3-upgraded 8500 has started to 'break', i.e. Firefox 0.8 has refused to open today but worked normally yesterday. I suspect bad Ram or bad Ram placement since I recently added some Dimms. The log was included in the bug report filed with Mozilla. Regarding my re

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 29, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 29/03/04 12:32, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Our sole gripe with OS X is the way it dumps the prefs without warning now and then, and loses data. I'm curious. I've been running OS X since it came out (starting with the p

Re: OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 29/03/04 12:32, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our sole gripe with OS X is the way it dumps the prefs > without warning now and then, and loses data. This has > happened at regular intervals in the past year on a > couple of different units: start up and the dock has > reverte

OS X tossing prefs ?

2004-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our sole gripe with OS X is the way it dumps the prefs without warning now and then, and loses data. This has happened at regular intervals in the past year on a couple of different units: start up and the dock has reverted to default, and many custom finder and application settings are reset. What