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username1 - Oct 5, 2005 - 8:45 am
Safari quits unexpectedly. Sometimes it quits as it is opening, other times it quits when I am opening a new tab, or if I am loading a new web page. Usually this happens when Safari is the only application running, I haven't noticed that it happens on particular web pages but web pages that I visit regularly and don't normally have any trouble. Sometimes it quits multiple times in a row. This also usually happens in the moring when I have just turned the computer or woken it up from sleeping.
philippe99 - Oct 5, 2005 - 12:21 pm
Marie, welcome on macosx.com
Before going further in the analyse of your issue, could you apply the following maintenance tips.
(1) Could you try to repair permissions
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboot
(2) could also download Macjanitor
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_...acjanitor.html
and use it to run the maintenance scripts
The maintenance scripts are Unix scripts which are automatically ran on your
Mac between 02Am and 04 am..if your Mac is on at this moment.
I can advice you to run, through Macjanitor, the daily script each day, the week script each week, ..and so on
(3) Could you also download Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
and use it to clean the caches. Use the onyx defaults.
Regards
Philippe
PS: si vous le désirez, nous pouvons continuer en français !
Before going further in the analyse of your issue, could you apply the following maintenance tips.
(1) Could you try to repair permissions
(must be admin)
Launch Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility
On the left pane, select the drive
On the right, select the First Aid (or SOS) tab
Then click on repair permissions and let run; don not worry about messages like " new permissions...."
Quit DiskUtility
Shutdown and reboot
(2) could also download Macjanitor
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_...acjanitor.html
and use it to run the maintenance scripts
The maintenance scripts are Unix scripts which are automatically ran on your
Mac between 02Am and 04 am..if your Mac is on at this moment.
I can advice you to run, through Macjanitor, the daily script each day, the week script each week, ..and so on
(3) Could you also download Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
and use it to clean the caches. Use the onyx defaults.
Regards
Philippe
PS: si vous le désirez, nous pouvons continuer en français !
username1 - Oct 6, 2005 - 1:37 pm
Thanks Philippe,
I have done the disk repair you suggested, I should also mention that my computer is only about a week and a half old. Are these repairs something I should do regularly?
Marie
I have done the disk repair you suggested, I should also mention that my computer is only about a week and a half old. Are these repairs something I should do regularly?
Marie
philippe99 - Oct 6, 2005 - 2:51 pm
Yes. Personaly:
* I run all the 3 scripts of macjanitor each day before powering off my G5
* I repair permissions each Sunday, before cloning my System to an external hard drive as a backup
* I use Onyx to clean the "normal" caches every month
Doing this, since 2003 on panther on my old G3 (now Tiger on the G5), I only face one KernelPanic (a system crash) due to the fact that the FW cable of my external burner -which was burning- just fall on the floor and cut off the communication between the burner and the Finder
These scripts cannot hurt, so do it on regular base.
You know, Mac Osx is based on Unix. Unix is the more powerfull operating system you can find around you. But Unix is built on a rule called "permission" which details which application can be ran by which user, which files of which user can be stored in which folder.
Each time Unix makes something it asks the system "can this user do this task ?". Like an army: before firing, the soldier asks his sergeant, the sergeant asks the colonel...
And when the general agrees, all the "Yes Sir !" chain of responses flow back to the soldier who, happy to have receive the "permission"..fires !
So, a corrupted permission on a specific file and the task cannot be executed.
Do you run 10.4.2 ?
And now, with these maintenace tips, does Safari works better ?
Philippe
* I run all the 3 scripts of macjanitor each day before powering off my G5
* I repair permissions each Sunday, before cloning my System to an external hard drive as a backup
* I use Onyx to clean the "normal" caches every month
Doing this, since 2003 on panther on my old G3 (now Tiger on the G5), I only face one KernelPanic (a system crash) due to the fact that the FW cable of my external burner -which was burning- just fall on the floor and cut off the communication between the burner and the Finder
These scripts cannot hurt, so do it on regular base.
You know, Mac Osx is based on Unix. Unix is the more powerfull operating system you can find around you. But Unix is built on a rule called "permission" which details which application can be ran by which user, which files of which user can be stored in which folder.
Each time Unix makes something it asks the system "can this user do this task ?". Like an army: before firing, the soldier asks his sergeant, the sergeant asks the colonel...
And when the general agrees, all the "Yes Sir !" chain of responses flow back to the soldier who, happy to have receive the "permission"..fires !
So, a corrupted permission on a specific file and the task cannot be executed.
Do you run 10.4.2 ?
And now, with these maintenace tips, does Safari works better ?
Philippe
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