[Spheric Harlot]

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! !!

Lost all the links I had on the Dock that I meant to check, and had to spend the time to go through ALL my Omniweb prefs to reset them (Bookmarks remained, thankfully).

This appears to happen after the total piece of **** NoIP X client runs amok and eats all available hard disk space with its memory requirements. Thereafter, re-launching OmniWeb or the Dock (or logging out & back in, or restarting - no difference) will reset a bunch of stuff to defaults.

It's as if the Memory management is deleting and overwriting my preferences.

I'm dumbfounded. I've never seen this before, and frankly, I can't believe I'm seeing it.

What gives? Anybody know?

-spheric*

[Gul Banana]

Very Bad Things tend to happen if you run out of both RAM and hard disk space - including, yes, random data loss, usually of preferences since when a program tries to save its prefs it can't find the space and they end up being zeroed.

This is an issue Apple should deal with; for now, the workaround is to make sure you always have _some_ space free (I like to keep a buffer of at least a gigabyte on my VM partition, even though I have plenty of RAM, just in case I come across an app with a large memory leak).