*said while holding everything that could come close to being wood* I can't for the life of me remember who it was who forwarded the article for me, but with all the serious problems, memory problems, losing the startup disk, errors found constantly with Disk Warrior and Disk First Aid, the system errors, the nasty ones with no message aoart from "System Error, Restart" and the little bomb, constant programs crashing, the whole computer freezing, that horrible flashing Mac face and folder with a question mark icon on start up, and the other problems, I was sure a reformat was going to be required.
Now, the person who sent me that article could very well have struck the nail on the head. I didn't think anything of it, I had shut down the computer overnight after repairing it with Disk Warrior only to find the same problems all starting the next day. But last night I unplugged it, I left it unplugged over night and now nearly three hours of working time later I haven't had a single problem, not even anything slightly sluggish or hinting at a problem. I realise its early days now, it had had times where it seemed to work just fine for long periods but it wasn't working this fine. All these pages I couldn't open in IE without running out of memory all open at once without a problem! I can run most of my apps at the same time! The Mac is being nice to me. Now I have no idea how unplugging the computer could possibly help, I would have thought turning it off would have done the same thing, maybe it was all the praying and sacrifices to the God of Computers, it will be awfully quiet without my firstborn running around but hey... Or maybe unplugging it really did fix it. Has anyone else found this to be the case or does anyone know why unplugging it could possibly help? Either way, thankyou to the person who suggested that, the most simple thing that I had never even considered. Of course, I have still backed up everything I could just in case but all is looking good. Also, where are the recent archives now? I looked up the link from the WAMUG website and found From early October back but nothing new since the list moving. Are the archives no longer being saved or is it a transitional thing or am I just going to the wrong URL? Cheers, and thanks again to whoever it was who may have solved my problem. Kelly ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk
