[KidRed]

I had some issues this past weekend (thread no one responded to) and it seems to be ongoing. I'll be doing something and the OS will hard freeze. Then after rebooting the last 10-15 or so seem to have never happened because the last incoming emails are gone and the last 3-4 saved versions of a photoshop file are gone. So it seems like i lose time when this happens. I've been working on a photoshop file and no matter how many times I save, after this freeze and reboot, the same file is like 4-5 saves in the previous condition.

I boot off one partition and store my graphic files on the 2nd partition. Is there something i should trash? Prefs, cache? I have journaling enabled obviously but don't know what to look for.

Any ideas?

[Spheric Harlot]

It sounds a hell of a lot like you're running out of disk space.

You need to keep about 1GB of free hard disk space on your boot drive at all times.

Anything less will start to get really slow, with disk thrashing, and at less than about 400MB free space, applications will start to act *really* funky.

Some time around there, applications will no longer be able to save their preferences, and you will lose settings - Finder, Dock, Mailboxes, all sorts of fun stuff like that.

Could this be the problem?

Else - Open Disk Utility and repair permissions (as a first step).

-s*

[KidRed]

That's what I thought, but both drives have 20+ gigs left of free space. But the behavior is right along that route. I can make changes, additions, and save, etc. It's only after a restart (from crash) that those very changes or additions are gone as if they never happened.

[dtriska]

It sounds to me like it's time for DiskWarrior.

[KidRed]

I ran 3.0 and it found some errors. But then I ran it again and it found the same errors. So it may be something DW can't fix. I just finished making the 3.0.1 CD and will try that out.

[alphasubzero949]

Rule of thumb: 10% of your drive should always be left free.

It's time to start burning CDs (or DVDs).

[KidRed]

Originally posted by alphasubzero949:
Rule of thumb: 10% of your drive should always be left free.

It's time to start burning CDs (or DVDs).

20+ gigs left free from a 60 gig drive in case you missed it in my above post.

Another strange occurrence lately is a web site in Safari displays a font from my fonts folder when it shouldn't. I don't use style sheets and use the default settings for Safari yet just this one web site pulls this strange font from my collection to render certain text. Then today, I noticed it in an email as well. Not sure if it's a corrupted font, if so, then why is it being used by those 2 apps?

[Telusman]

I've had files disappear or revert back to an old state if my Mac has crashed and on reboot it offset the journal to the version last previously saved. Not to say thats whats happened to you, but i've had it happen to me.

-Telusman

[KidRed]

Originally posted by Telusman:
I've had files disappear or revert back to an old state if my Mac has crashed and on reboot it offset the journal to the version last previously saved. Not to say thats whats happened to you, but i've had it happen to me.

-Telusman

That totally sounds like what's happening. How did you fix it? Last I checked, I'm still getting frequent hard freezes (so don't anyone tell me X is crash proof) but the last 2 crashes don't seemed to have wiped the last few changes like before. I ran DW 3.0.1 on the disk a few times so that may have fixed the journalling issue if i did have it. However, I'm still getting the freezes. Mostly in relationship to Photoshop, but also with my scanner software and twice when trying to copy files to a FW400 drive. There is no consistent pattern, because I can copy to the drive no problem most of the time, and Photoshop isn't always flaky.