On 17/02/2011, at 3:06 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
> I am observing ongoing problems with applications starting or not starting. > The dock icon bounces forever and gets nowhere. A Force Quit followed by a > try again usually fixes things. I believe that the problem is more frequent > when I click on an icon in the dock rather than on the application icon > itself, ie via an alias. This is widespread and includes Word, Acrobat Pro > 9, iPhoto, Filemaker Pro most recently. I suspect the preference files, for > no very good reason, and anyway the applications eventually fire up. As far > as I can tell everything is up to date, caches clean, maintenance scripts > run, permissions repaired etc. > Suggestions welcomed! > Severin Crisp > G5 SP1.8 OSX 10.5.8 Hi Severin, How much RAM do you have installed on the G5? Also how much free space on your Hard Drive? Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
