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safari keep crashing and IE has lost it's mind!
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not sure where to start here ... but safari keeps crashing after one minute of being open, usually when i put it under a little strain by loading new pages.
internet explorer (which i have begrudgingly gone back to) is playing up as well. it will not remember any of the saved prefs. every time i change some of the standard ones and relaunch, it reverts back to the factory settings.
and all my prefs in OSX are gone. the dock lost all the apps i had in it and reverted to the standard iApps and the finder went back to it's original factory settings.
i not sure where to post this as i thought my original problem was with safari but now i'm not too sure ... feel free to move.
could there be a corrupted preference file somewhere casuing all this???
i'm running 10.2.5 (although currently d/l 10.2.6 to see if this will fix the problem)
cheers for any suggestions.
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I would check to make sure your hard disk isn't full. If it is, that could easily be what has caused your system to lose its mind.
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Originally posted by CharlesS:
I would check to make sure your hard disk isn't full. If it is, that could easily be what has caused your system to lose its mind.
well this could be the answer as i was down to about 60mb!
how much space would you suggest i free up? i have deleted a few things and now have 200mb free.
will my listed problems disappear once more space is found?
thanks for the help.
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If you don't have a certain size of free space, your prefs will never stick. They constantly overwrite the the file, over and over. If you don't have enough room, they won't overwrite and they essentially write nothing leaving you with blank prefs. I highly recommend freeing up a gig or so. You should really think about getting a portable 10-20gig HD and move some files over to free up more space. I try not to go under 5 gigs on any drive.
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heh, start off by deleting your file sharing programs, if thats the problem 
-Owl
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well, i now have over 700mb free and the prefs for IE still won't stick past each page load, and safari keeps crashing after 30 secs.
would trashing the prefs help? i would but not sure where they are.
any other tips?
cheers
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally posted by ifirewire:
would trashing the prefs help? i would but not sure where they are.
It might. All your prefs should be in ~/Library/Preferences (where ~ is your home folder). I think Safari is com.apple.Safari.plist and IE is com.microsoft.explorer.plist.
You might also try checking your drive. I've found that low-space freakouts can cause some pretty bad disk errors.
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