[strolyt]

My wife and I bought an iBook a couple of days after Panther was released. Things were fine at first (we're both Mac users back to the 512K model) in spite of a new OS to learn, but in the past couple of weeks the system has started to freeze up intermittently, requiring a complete turn off/reboot. It doesn't seem to matter much what we're doing at the time, although I'd have to say that it seems to happen more during navigational moves (scrolling, etc) than anything else. I'm going to take it to the local Apple store and have them take a look (I'm pretty sure I can see a complete system install in the near future), but I wondered if this is a common problem - I thought that OSX was supposed to allow apps to crash and keep on trucking, but this seems to be a bit larger than that. Thanks for any help anyone can offer

[Grant_G]

Two or three things.

[*]Repair permissions! Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Open it and click on your OS X volume/hard drive in the left panel, then First Aid at the top if it isn't already selected. Click "Repair Permissions" (you may safely disregard "Verify Permissions").

[*]Download Cocktail at http://www.macosxcocktail.com/ and run the "Pilot" tab. You no doubt have tons of caches piled up, plus possibly corrupted databases, etc., and crons that may never have been run if you shut the Mac off at night.

[*]Purchase DiskWarrior from http://www.alsoft.com/ . It takes care of any directory damage that might occur. You might not need it after you've done the first two things, but you will eventually -- so get it.
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Good luck, and enjoy Panther, the finest OS ever!
G

[berg]

See if any of this applies to you ...
http://www.macattorn...ml#Anchor-38414

[macintaz]

Question does the mouse lock up
If the mouse is locking up 99% of the time its a hardware issue
If it does did you add ram or any other hardware to your iBook
if yes take it out and see what happens
Macintaz
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