Recently there have been warnings of clashes between. I have iDisk syncing switched on, and on a few occasions it's vanished and I've had to reboot to get things back to normal. Again, I'm not sure if these are the cause or a consequence of the problems. mac and idisk seem to cause their share of problems. Also, should the macbook not be immune from problems caused by power fluctuations because of the battery? I certainly did get a system crash recently when there was a power cut - but at the time I just wondered if it was due to the wireless router going off. Unfortunately, the ideal setup with additional battery to provide a few hours of power are very expensive. I've looked into uninterruptible power supplies.

On occasion I've had to hold down the power button to shut it down and get it going again. I've also often had a problem with the sccreen remaining blank after macbook has slept or had the screensaver on. Obviously backing up is an important strategy, but that leads to a whole load of decisions like, how often to backup, do you keep incremental backups, do you restore absolutely everything when you discover 1 or 2 corrupt files (how do you know if others have become corrupt?).Ĭorrect shutting down is something I always do - unless something prevents me from doing so, like power cuts. My macbook has minimal amounts of software installed, and is generally kept quite simple. However, with my recent purchase of a Macbook, and within a couple of months having all my preference files becoming corrupt, this goes against those theories. Sometimes I wonder whether it's just because of all the junk I install, or the length of time it's been since doing a clean format.

I don't know why, or whether other files are becoming corrupt too and I've not discovered it yet. Data corruption problems bug my life as much now as system freezes/crashes did 5 years ago.įor some reason, it often seems to be preferences files that become corrupt.

However, for me the next BIG problem with using computers is data corruption. Mac OS X is great, and one of the greatest things it has achieved is an environment so stable that it almost never crashes.

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