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GCP

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Sun Mar-13-05 08:20 AM
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My mail keeps crashing

I have a PowerMac G4 running OS 10.3.8. Every time I turn on the Mac and try to get my mail, it instantly crashes, not even opening up most times. If I then go back in, I often find a load of old deleted messages before the new stuff, or it won't bring in any new stuff until I try maybe 30 minutes later.
Safari also crashes sometimes.
I know almost nothing about Macs. I tried doing the disk first aid and verying permissions etc, bbut nothing seems to work.
Do any of you good people have any ideas what to do?

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Poiuyt

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Sun Mar-13-05 10:14 PM
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1. You may need to trash your Mail preferences

Edited on Sun Mar-13-05 10:15 PM by Poiuyt

Whenever I have a problem, the first thing I do is restart my computer and repair the permissions. If that doesn't work, I use some kind of disk repair software like DiskWarrior or Tech Tool Pro 4. Then I start hitting the Macintosh forums like:

http://forums.dealmac.com/list.php?1

or Apple's support forums:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/

Here's a site for apps that are crashing:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/multipleappsquit.html

Finally, I looked at Apple's site and found someone else who had the same problem. Here's the link:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@950.8Qz8aJOsRXn.2@.68a8b9f6

As far as Safari crashing, if it's only occasionally, I wouldn't worry too much. That's probably due to some javascript on the web page causing trouble.

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GCP

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Mon Mar-14-05 07:20 AM
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2. Thank you very much!

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