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Good Day, This is my first post and I am happy to have found you all...I have a G4 350, with 832mg of sdram...I was running OS9.2 without a hitch for years...I switched to Jaguar 10.2 and upgraded to 10.2.8 with little or no issues...I did have some random freezing...I upgraded to Panther and have a terrible issue with freezing with all my apps, like Explorer, AOL, Photoshop7, Etc...When I run Classic all is well...Can someone give me some thoughts, or is there anyone else out there, and I know there must be, that is having similar problems..I am now only running on Classic until I can find a solution...Thanks, Fstop
 
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The first thing I would try is repair permissions. After every software update, and about every 2 weeks: close all apps and log totally off. Log on, go in Finder, Applications. Utilities, Disk Utility. After the message -getting disk information- select volume (below the hard drive name -upper left corner). Just highlight it. Now look to the lower two things are there near the middle, verify permissions, repair permissions. Click repair permissions
 
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Log off...

By logging off , do you mean shutting down all apps?...Explain "log off" please...And thanks for your response...I already did a repair permissions...Fstop :p
 
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did you upgrade or a do a clean install?

You should always do a clean install

This might help
Restart the computer
Hold down Apple + S immediately
Wait for single user mode to finish loading (you can tell)
type in /sbin/fsck -f and hit enter
If it makes any changes do the same thing again
When it says OK type in restart and hit enter
 
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Clean Install

I did a clean install...I will do as you suggested...Thanks, Fstop
 
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Fstop36 said:
By logging off , do you mean shutting down all apps?...Explain "log off" please...And thanks for your response...I already did a repair permissions...Fstop :p
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Yeah, log - off and sign back on ensures that all apps are shut down :cool:
 
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By log off he means go to the Apple menu and select Log Off...
I haven't repaired permissions since maybe before I reformatted a month ago, and my system is fine... :cool:
 
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Absolute Zero said:
By log off he means go to the Apple menu and select Log Off...
I haven't repaired permissions since maybe before I reformatted a month ago, and my system is fine... :cool:
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If you downloaded the recent updates you really should! You're very lucky!
 
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Maybe if I was running a server, but I'm not, so... yeah. Heh.
I will one day.
 
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I just upgraded to 10.3.3 from the apple support site...I will do another repair permissions...The first repair I performed did not solve this freezing issue...Thanks all for you input...This is comepletely frustrating..I have never had this issue....EVER......Fstop
 
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I'm still on 10.2.8 and this sort of thing puts me off paying £100 for panther..
 
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i have been on panther since the day it was released and there has not been a single problem for me with it
 
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HopperJonusFang said:
I'm still on 10.2.8 and this sort of thing puts me off paying £100 for panther..
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I too started with Panther and have had a simply flawless performance. Keeping up with repair permissions and cron tasks seems to be totally sufficient very nice avatar BTW :)
 
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also been on panther from the start. only problems have been with M$ apps (word). big surprise there.....uh mail crashed once. thats it! a+ panther.
 
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Repair permission is not new to Panther, it has been around since Jaquar days.
 

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