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kiwi

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A few times, trying to save a VW file I've seen this fancy and colorful icon spinning around for a long long while: up to five minutes!

First thinks first I run a unix shell with a u-top, but all looks OK: still plenty of memory free... I as well repair my disk permissions just in case.

Next day same think: is becoming so annoying... lets run a kill (unix): doesn't work !!!! for at least four long min. At the same time I try to change a song and find Itunes stock too! fast check and I found that the finder, help, mail and other core app (filemaker is just find) are on the wait for something?

Third day all other apps turn off to see if VW is causing the problem... and again at some stage, when saving a file got stock again. I try to restart the computer and after 6 or 7 min I pull the plug... and back to work.

Days pass by and is becoming a nightmare... I hope somebody have an idea about what's going on!

OSX 10.2.8 (reinstall a month ago with the problems starting under 10.2.6) on a dual 1.25

VW 10.5

Thanks for any help.

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Originally posted by kiwi:

A few times, trying to save a VW file I've seen this fancy and colorful icon spinning around for a long long while: up to five minutes!

etc.

Are you working off a Powerbook? You might check the little utility called MacJanitor at: http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html

I found out that Mac OSX has some Unix inheritance, infact "The Unix subsystems on Mac OS X were originally written for machines that were typically never shut off. Mac OS X inherits this assumption in version 1.x, and has many system maintenance tasks that are scheduled to run between 3 am and 5 am. In addition, there are scripts designed to run weekly on weekends, and once a month in the middle of the night.".

I don't know if that's your case: hope this helps.

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hey Paolo,

No, the computer is a power mac that I never use to shut down. The daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts, run OK.

Since the problems started I normally need to restart once a day, causing all sorts of issues with the filemaker pro database I host on my computer (the database never uses more than 11% of the resources).

If I don't restart, and after 35-40 min, the computer gets back to normal speed, but thinks like the applescripts I run at specific times with Ical get stock. I have a word with an IT from an apple center, but he as no idea what this think could be! I may just reinstall the OS on a clean disk.

Thanks.

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