I've just backed up and re-formatted the hard drive in my iMac (2 years old).
After re-installing the system and the applications that I want, the result
seems faster and somehow cleaner. It probably works for all OSs.
Chris
On 25 Sep 2013, at 14:11, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any computer (even Apple products) will eventually generate memory
> errors if left running long enough... usually from software errors but
> sometimes even from hardware... especially with today's price dependence
> on non-ECC memory. I suspect that's what's causing your problem. The
> solution is a shutdown and re-boot. If you do that daily (shut down at
> night and re-boot in the morning) you will greatly reduce the likelihood
> of these sorts of gremlins.
>
> ps: Many more of them occur than you realize since, depending on what
> they effect, they may never be noticeable. Will you ever notice a
> single bit error in a JPEG file? Maybe but very unlikely.
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