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It’s summer, and El Capitan is still freezing

For 3 successive releases of El Capitan over a 4 month period, some Macs keep freezing. No operating system should ever collapse like that.

August 1, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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

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

Q&A: New router freezes my old Mac

My new router freezes my old Mac. What is wrong?

October 9, 2015 Macs, Technology

Crash trash

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The computing sense of crash lacks onomatopœa, is gross hyperbole, and is far too widely encompassing to be meaningful.

May 24, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

My Mac don’t work – troubleshooting tools and techniques

Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]

February 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

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