Hello all. My iMac seems to have completely frozen insofar that the screen has gone black and will not respond to either keystrokes or mouse clicks. I have a Drobo attached to it which houses my substantial Aperture library. The Aperture library was/is in the process of rebuilding itself following Aperture deciding to unexpectedly quit yesterday in the middle of upgrading said library in order for it to be compatible with the software's latest version. Nothing particularly unusual was happening when my iMac froze just now. Aperture was sorting itself out in the background and I was running safari, skype, mail, and ical - nothing too taxing. All of a sudden a video I was watching on Safari froze and although I could move the mouse around the screen there was no response from clicking it and I could not switch between applications either by using the mouse or by using command-tab. The drobo is still whirring away leading me to believe it is still doing the Aperture work it was doing at the time. However, the screen is now black and I believe this may be just a result of it going to sleep. Nevertheless, I cannot wake it. I am tempted to force the iMac to shutdown by holding down the power button and then restarting it. Someone please tell me if this is a good or potentially very very bad idea.
Thanks in advance. Jonathan Brady Photography, Multimedia, Video tel: +44(0) 7931 541 489 Twitter: @HiredGunJB LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/jmebrady web: http://www.jonathanbrady.net email: jmebr...@mac.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.