Eugene Macintosh Users Group » Dave Wilkins http://www.e-mug.org Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:43:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Serious Tiger Bug, and a Workaound http://www.e-mug.org/2005/06/serious-tiger-bug-and-a-workaound http://www.e-mug.org/2005/06/serious-tiger-bug-and-a-workaound#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:15:51 +0000 Dave Wilkins http://www.e-mug.org/?p=21 A few days ago I got Tiger freezing up, repeatably … I finally found a workaround.
Running Tiger 10.4.1, I added some large pictures to my screen saver, and updated to the latest QuickTime. Then I found Tiger freezing in all circumstances after 10 to 15 minutes of use. Lots of reboot. Unhappy Mac user.

Workaround: I finally found (using Jaguar) some hints that QuickTime 7.0.1 might have some freeze bugs. I rebooted into Tiger, then quickly changed the Screen Saver and Desktop not to change pictures. I suspect that doing so invokes QuickTime’s fatal freezing flaw.

Tiger has once again given stable performance, no longer freezing up.

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Macupdate is the site; it has the usual features to find software by name or by categories. User reviews usually include star ratings on four points:

    1 – Features
    2 – Usability
    3 – Value
    4 – Stability

The “hot picks” tab looks especially handy.

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I used to try backing up by writing CDs, a painfully slow process, ill-suited to large video files (among others). So, backup often ended up as a postponed ‘to do” item.

Now, I backup by dragging folders to the LaCie drive. It’s great — room for photos, room for videos, room to back up my wife’s iMac.

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