January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Synopsis
- Force quit an application that’s stuck?
Option-
-Escape opens a window showing all of the running applications. Select the troublesome application, and click the Force Quit button.
Option-click the application’s icon in the Dock. A pop-up window will appear next to the icon with the Force Quit option; move the mouse over and release it on that option.
Applications → Utilities → Process Viewer → select the process that’s causing the problem → Processes → Quit Process
- Restart my computer automatically after a power failure?
System Preferences → Energy Saver → Options pane → select the checkbox next to “Restart automatically after a power failure”
- Turn on crash reporting so I can see why an application crashed?
Applications → Utilities → Console → Preferences → Crashes panel → select both options. Now when an application crashes, the Console application automatically launches and displays the cause of the crash.
- Where are crash logs kept?
It is kept in
~/Library/Logs.- Fix a disk that won’t mount?
Applications → Utilities → Disk Utility → select the disk that won’t mount → First Aid.
- Restart my system when it has completely frozen?
Hold down the Shift-Option-
keys, and press the Power-On button.
- Make sure that my system is okay after it has completely ...
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