My shiny powerbook G4 started crashing its mail this morning. After getting the latest security update from Apple and running Norton's LiveUpdate and starting a full system scan, Istarted poking around on LJ while I waited it to finish... the next step in my brain was to do some sort of disk check for bad sectors... I didn't even think about the recent Java update, but I'm now convinced it was the culprit.
Thank you for posting about your experiences here... because of your posts I went looking around in the Mac forums and saw a suggestion to restart the computer, then open a mailto link from my browser to launch Mail, and then to delete the image-containing message which was my last-viwed message pre-crashes, and then to exit mail. I did that and then restarted Mail from the dashboard icon.
Holy crap, Mail doesn't crash now. So far, anyway!
I'm using Firefox primarily and have been too chicken to even see if Safari has any problems.
My gosh, I'm so sorry you had to go through everything you have with this, but thank you so much for talking about it. I feel like such a newbie with these apps and OS!
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Date: 2005-12-01 07:20 pm (UTC)My shiny powerbook G4 started crashing its mail this morning. After getting the latest security update from Apple and running Norton's LiveUpdate and starting a full system scan, Istarted poking around on LJ while I waited it to finish... the next step in my brain was to do some sort of disk check for bad sectors... I didn't even think about the recent Java update, but I'm now convinced it was the culprit.
Thank you for posting about your experiences here... because of your posts I went looking around in the Mac forums and saw a suggestion to restart the computer, then open a mailto link from my browser to launch Mail, and then to delete the image-containing message which was my last-viwed message pre-crashes, and then to exit mail. I did that and then restarted Mail from the dashboard icon.
Holy crap, Mail doesn't crash now. So far, anyway!
I'm using Firefox primarily and have been too chicken to even see if Safari has any problems.
My gosh, I'm so sorry you had to go through everything you have with this, but thank you so much for talking about it. I feel like such a newbie with these apps and OS!