The unfortunate instance when an individual application or your entire mac or iOS device refuses to respond or function properly. Usually causes the app to "quit" or the interface to "freeze".
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My Mac show a login screen on a spinning cube which keeps on spinning
My 2009 iMac with Lion keeps on getting stuck everytime my son's limited time ends and the computer subsequently wakes up from sleep.
How to reproduce
In other words, my son has a limited usage ...
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Statistics on MacBook Air failures?
Are there any statistics available about failure rates for MacBook Air by time? For example, what are the chances of failing within 1, 3, 6, 12 months, etc.
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My Macbook Pro crashes every time I change my desktop
So everytime I change my background on my desktop, I go and delete the image. The next thing I almost always find is that the next time I turn my Macbook on, the whole thing freezes and I always have ...
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Available RAM less than what my Macbook is supposed to have
When I go into Photoshop and then I look at performance in the preferences, it says that I have "3240 MB Available", whereas I have a 4gb RAM MacBook Pro.
Also, it often crashes, and I frequently have ...
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Apps that access the internet crash when waking up from sleep
Whenever I wake my 2012 MBA 13" from sleep, all apps that were accessing the internet before going to sleep crash. This includes the streaming software Zattoo.app, Chrome.app, Firefox.app, etc.
None ...
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What can be done when Finder crashes constantly?
Finder has started to crash constantly such that I can't click the icon in Dock. I can't click Apple in top-left corner of the screan (Finder also crash), I don't have any menubar icons from Apple ...
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Fresh install of iOS 6.0.1 apps constantly crash
I just finished a fresh install, started installing apps and signing in again. Every time I login to an app it crashes within a few seconds. Going back in stays there, sometimes crashing again.
I'm ...
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computer sleeps, then crashes later
For the past several weeks, this has been happening.
I put the computer to sleep at night, and when I wake the computer up the next morning, my computer has restarted itself.
There's a "Problem ...
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Occasional hard crashes
I have a 3 year old Mac Pro, with an original HD and in SSD that I installed myself about 1 year ago. All software updates and Mt Lion are installed. It has worked flawlessly.
Recently the computer ...
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Keyboard and Mouse freeze after deep sleep (Mountain Lion)
I got a mid 2011 MacBook Air 13.6" and its keyboard and mouse freezes very often after I leave it in sleep mode for some time and it wakes up. Only the power key and the lid detector are still ...
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How to fix weird screen issues on Macbook Pro after appr. half an hour of activity?
Recently my couple year old MacBook Pro has been acting up strangely. I generally use it for watching videos. After about half an hour or so of activity, the screen starts to look like this:
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Xserver crashing, logs are incomplete as to why
We are currently running an OS X Server, and for the past month or two, it has been crashing around the same times. There is no rhyme or reason as to why, and the logs do not tell a full picture as to ...
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Mountain Lion screen crashes after returning from sleep
During the past 3 days I have experienced the following issue: when returning from sleep, I see an extremely garbled version of my desktop. The only thing that seems to help is a reboot.
My first ...
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Why do Firefox and Chrome crash on my Macbook Pro?
I have trouble running Firefox and Chrome on my Mac.
Firefox is crashing from time to time:
http://pastebin.com/UYYjPbZe
Chrome crashes right after installation, it couldn't run it even once:
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eclipse RCP juno 64 bit crashes on Mac OS X
I'm trying to install eclipse RCP 64 bit version on my Mac (10.7.5).
Whenever I tried to launch eclipse, I got this crash screen.
When I tried to start eclipse using command line, I got ...
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iTunes 10.7.0.21 (and earlier) on Windows 7 64bit crashes when converting to AAC
[Also posted in the Apple Support Communities, where it has not received any responses so far.]
iTunes crashes very consistently whenever I try to convert songs to AAC format. Sometimes I can get ...
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10.7.5 on a late 2009 MacBook Pro crashes
Ever since I installed Lion on my late 2009 MacBook Pro, it crashes several times a day randomly during some operation (open an application, browse the net, add photos, etc.).
I read the answer ...
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iPhoto refuses to open, even after deletion and reinstall
Here's the error message:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/NyxAudioAnalysis
Referenced from: ...
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Mountain Lion Crashing while hibernating
I had one crash yesterday and one tomorrow on my iMac running mountain lion while the computer was hibernating. In both cases the computer restarted alone.
The messa is always the same: mountain lion ...
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iTunes crashes (have to force close) when choosing Movies
Every time I select Movies pane on the left-hand side, iTunes crashes and I have to force quit it. I only ever had two movies in iTunes, but I don't think these are present on my hard drive any more. ...
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Macbook won't boot, possibly HDD issue
I am posting this for a friend who is having this problem but obviously can't post this himself as his computer will not boot up. He started having problems after a video game crashed during online ...
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Apple iPad - intermittently crashing
I've inherited a 1st generation iPad. It seems to work fine, except for the reason I inherited it, which is that every so often, whichever app is running will simply close for no discernible reason. ...
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Preview Bug with (Mountain) Lion — hangs/crashes on repeat postscript openings
I have been able to duplicate this error on both Lion and Mountain Lion.
Open a(n) (enhanced) post-script file (either .ps or .eps) using preview.
It should convert properly to PDF and be displayed
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Macbook getting stuck after wakeup on 10.8.0
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, my MacBook has been stuck twice in a way that every app slowly becomes unresponsive, including menu bar (but a bit surprisingly, not Dock).
The only symptoms common ...
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Strange failure with Spaces?
Over the course of my ownership of a MacBook Pro running Lion, I've had an extremely odd bug occur somewhat sporadically. It rarely occurs, but when it does, the following effects become apparent:
I ...
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No applications respond to trackpad clicks
I had a application called Boxcryptor which recently threw some errors (version expired, upgrade, etc.) and left the system in a unusable state.
My MacBook running Lion no longer responds to mouse ...
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Is there a way to stop MS Word from automatically opening previously opened documents?
I know there's probably a setting in preferences, but I need to be able to do it without Word being open.
The problem is one of my docx has become corrupt, so every time Word opens it immediately ...
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Why does Finder use 59GB of swap space?
My new retina MacBook Pro(with 16GB RAM) keeps receiving this "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory" message. I have 300 GB of free space on my hard drive, and ...
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itunes match crashing on upload
I've got some dj sets from Soundcloud that I want to include in my itunes match library but when I try to sync it always crashes. How can I find out exactly why? They are below the 200mb size limit. ...
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Regular Boot System Unresponsive
My computer was working fine until last night when I restarted. When the computer booted up and I logged into my account, I suddenly got the beachball whenever I tried to open an application. For ...
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X11 keeps crashing with “Cannot establish any listening sockets”, I cleared /tmp but it still crashes
Started X11 on Lion today, now it keeps crashing over and over - can't get it to stop.
Cannot establish any listening sockets
1) is there any way to stop this over and over again?
2) is there a ...
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MacBook Pro Lion crashes after a progress bar boot
Basically my MBP started giving me messages (out of nowhere) about how my Memory was too low and that I needed to shut down a few programs before continuing. In the end I was left with only Finder ...
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Mail and Entourage causes system hang
I have been using Mac OSX 10.6.8 Build 10K549 for over a year now.
I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 with 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. I also have 2 cores.
I usually use Microsoft Entourage 2008 Version ...
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Mac Pro (Early 2008) periodically crashes in unusual way, requires reinstall
Mac Pro (Early 2008), 2x Intel Quad-core Xeon 3.2 GHz (8 cores), 14 GB RAM, 3 TB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 and/or ATI Radeon HD 4870), OS X Lion 10.7.4
OK, I've got a weird one here. Every ...
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I am having a near daily crash on my iPhone 4. Has occurred with every iOS 5.x release
I took my iPhone 4 to the Apple store based on this problem. The iPhone crashes during calls, when spawning new apps, when navigating an existing app. They suggested it was due to too many concurrent ...
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Safari - Why history. in JavaScript console reloads the page?
Why history. in JavaScript console reloads the page?
Demo: http://youtu.be/ummt-Sb53R0
Safari: 5.1.7 (7534.57.2)
OSX: 10.7.4 -- Build 11E53
It seems it crashes something, because when i switch to ...
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Where is Diagnostics & Usage Data stored on iOS?
Since I've installed a few jailbreak tweaks, my iPhone has been crashing fairly regularly and I would like to know exactly what's causing it.
Does anyone know the direct path to where the crash ...
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Gimp keeps on crashing with SIGSEGV error
I am trying out Mac Gimp 2.8 as an alternative to Photoshop. I've been wanting to go for more OS stuff and wondered if Gimp would play nice. It seems both Photoshop and Gimp get the same error working ...
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How to get Safari crash report?
I have been able to reproduce a bug that makes the iOS5 browser crash and stop unexpectingly. I am unable to reproduce that bug outside of our web application so I was thinking to send a crash report ...
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Finder crashes when searching in spotlight or opening Applications folder
I have a non-admin account (Standard account) that I normally use on my iMac. For the past 2 days I have been having a really strange issue.
If I search for "Chrome" or "Firefox" on spotlight, ...
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Why is the Network Link Conditioner preference pane crashing as soon as I turn it on?
I am trying to use the Network Link Conditioner preference pane included with the Hardware IO tools in the developer tools to throttle Internet speeds. I can open and load the preference pane, but as ...
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CrashReporter itself keeps crashing
I never get crash logs when an application crashes, and the reason is that CrashReporter itself crashes:
4/20/12 10:11:25 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[104]
(com.apple.ReportCrash.Self[133]) Job ...
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What kind of crash is this? [closed]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX80N-DYI4E
Here's what caused it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10166441/drawing-to-a-css3-3d-transformed-canvas-on-iphone4-causes-hard-freeze
I'm basically just ...
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OS X Lion Safari, Chrome and Firefox crashing while trying to access caixa.gov.br account
For months I'm having problems accessing this link https://internetbanking.caixa.gov.br/SIIBC/index.processa from caixa.gov.br
It only works when I use Opera, but it fails on Chrome, Safari and ...
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Emailing photos in iOS 5.0.1
I have been trying to send an email with a picture attached from the Photo app on my iPhone 3GS, but every time I hit the option button for the photo the app crashes. Its been frustrating. Does anyone ...
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How do I stop my computer from crashing? [closed]
Recently, I've been having problems with my late 2009 MacBook Pro crashing several times a day. How can I fix it?
I'm running OS 10.7.3 with 8 GB of RAM.
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Cached restored files and their logs after the force shutdown (crash). Where are they?
Where can I find the cached files or logs from which Mac OS X restores to its current position after the force shutdown (hard freeze problem)?
Moreover, same question with Google Chrome: from where ...
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Why does my computer auto-restart after freezing (Lion 10.7.3), even when disabled?
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3" I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting.
Problem is, that such automatic restarts happen ...
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Preventing Resume after Hang/Crash OS X 10.7.3
Since recently upgrading to "Lion 10.7.3", I have had repeated instances of the machine hanging/crashing without warning and then silently restarting.
While this is annoying enough, the point of this ...
