Hello Paolo,
On 11.01.2011, at 15:21, paolo savonuzzi wrote:
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> I had a similar issue, desktop icons re-arranged on restart, on my old PPC MB 17 and I'm having a different one on both the iMac 27
Good to know that I'm not the only one. :-)
> and, sometimes, MBA: startup items reset to "none" and Safari cache emptyied.
You mean cache in Safari is emptied without you being directly involved?
> but, at least, these annoyiances, are random and do not happen too often
I can confirm that. By me perhaps once or twice a week, it mostly happens after hours of downloading movie parts with Safari.
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> this kind of problem, afaik, is caused by a preference file becoming corrupted, maybe by some third party app or "extension" or "hack" (some applications install these without you even knowing)
This is what I have been thinking about too. Regarding third party applications, do you possibly use one of the following programs as startup items?
Spark
SizzlingKeys
SimpleFloatingClock
ChronoSync with ChronoSyncBackgrounder
Default FolderX with Default FolderX Helper
MUMenu
Paste Master
BusyCal with BusyCalAlarm
FlexCalAgent (Part of BusyCal)
Chronories
Contactizer Pro
MaxMenus
Typinator
Scribblet
MenuCalendarClock
> all I can think of, now, is...
> a) a non Apple certified RAM module (on the iMac)
> b) something related indeed to external HDs (two Iomega are constantly plugged-in to the iMac)
> c) ... 10.6 Finder itself (I also had since day one, and still have, the Finder crashing and relaunching when scrolling folders containing hundreds of files :-/ )
The Finder crashes now indeed far more often than I am used to. The good thing though is that it automatically relaunches again and very fast, not like in the past where such incident would crash the whole machine.
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> I strongly suspect both b and c ;-)
> (btw: own too one of those new WD HDs and after using it for the first time... I immediately removed their useless, and potentially dangerous in my belief, "manager" software)
I wholeheartedly agree. Their backup software is absolutely useless.
For some reason I never managed to clone system 10.4.11 on the WD external hard disk, but fortunately I could clone OS 10.6.5 without any problem.
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> hope it helps (but I think it doesn't, sorry!)
This was a very good feedback. Thanks a lot Paolo.
Žorvaršur Davķšsson
OS X 10.6.5
MacBook Pro 17''
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