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Diagnosing problems: crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball?

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Was that crash a freeze, a panic, or just a spinning beachball? And what do they mean?

July 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Getting El Capitan to run – without freezing

For the last 15 weeks, this iMac has been freezing sporadically. I have run out of ideas, and hope that 10.11.6 fixes the bug.

July 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

Reducing the frequency of freezes in El Capitan

I may at last have found a way to reduce the frequency of freezing in OS X 10.11.4 and later.

June 6, 2016 Macs, Technology

Definitely not the cat: the sporadic freezes continue

After another system freeze, it is clear the problems in El Capitan are not fixed in 10.11.5.

May 24, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

El Capitan 10.11.4 freezes are not confined to certain MacBook Pros

Has your Mac been freezing occasionally since updating to OS X 10.11.4? You are not alone, it seems.

May 15, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Growing suspicions about El Capitan 10.11.4 and power management

After a ‘Sleep Wake Failure’ and a bizarre ‘GPU Reset’, I’m not convinced that 10.11.4 is doing this iMac much good.

April 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

A complete freeze, restart, and lockout

Things were not looking good: my Mac would not start up, and the RAID would not shut down. Stalemate.

April 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

App crashed? it could be SIP

When an app ran fine, but crashes in El Capitan, it may be SIP’s fault. Here is how to check, and more about SIP.

November 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Apps quit as soon as they open

Why are many of my apps quitting as soon as I have launched them?

August 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

Crash crash

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Whenever the bug occurred, it set the screen into a steady roll. The only way out was to pull down a menu command, no mean feat when pointer, menu bar and the whole caboodle are rolling past your eyes.

July 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

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