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I have a Canon 3200F scanner, the syslogs show constant crashes of TWAINBridge. Anyone got any IDea? (I have a snapshot of one of the most recent) Daver PS When the scanner isn't connected then crashes stop

My finder seems to crash everytime I try to rename a file. Finder just stops when I hit enter after renaming and all windows and icons disapear. All other programs keep running. After I find the file again (not renamed) and rename it again it crashes again, the third time it WILL rename the...

One of my computers was in the process of downloading a program from the internet when it seemed to Stall and then Crash. Now I cannot start up my computer at all...it just flashes the dreaded ? mark and will not start. I have tried many things including booting from the OS X.2 installation...

Hi there I've very recently upgraded my g4 from Panther to Tiger. I can start the g4 trouble-free from OS9. Classic was working perfectly before the upgrade, but now this happens: I start it, the smiley face of the welcome to OS window comes up, I can see all the extensions loading up...

Hello all, I've been having a strange problem for a year or so. It has never really posed a problem until today, as I could ususally just reboot to OS 9 and print whatever I needed. Today, however, I discovered a pressing need to "Print to PDF" in Appleworks and Microsoft Word; the only...

I've already backed up all my stuff, so this is not as worrying a problem as it might be. Now I'm just trying to get the thing to wake up again. 2 days ago, i bought an Asus WL-167g for my iBook G3 800 running OS 10.3.9, installed the driver off the CD, and promptly started abusing my new...

Hi, Thank you for a great site! My 15months old iBook G4 (Panther 1.3.9) crashed yesterday. It simply froze when I used it. If I switched it off to restart it worked for a few minutes before it froze again. (When frozen I could still move the mousepointer. I rang Apple but since my...

Hi all, My iBook has crashed and will not even start anymore. I have erased the whole disk and reinstalled OSX. I have run /sbin/fsck -fy in single user mode. However it crashed again and now it won´t even boot up from a disk but leaves me at the grey window before login. When running the...

my address book app didn't work (perpetual spinning wheel) so i tried reinstalling using pacifist. from the orignal OS X installation DVD I choose the OSInstall.pkg/Essentials.pkg/Applications.pkg/addressbook.app then i choose install in the applications folder. Installation went fine...

I've got a dual G4 Powermac, 1.25mhz mirrored drive doors, running 10.4.2 that has a problem about 20% of the time waking from sleep. I have it set to require a password to get through the screensaver. What happens is, sometimes when it sleeps I will attempt to wake it up and the display will...

I was scheduling an iCal appt. and sending my notifications to 4 contacts from my Address book. After a minute or so of iCal, Mail and Address Book not responding in Force Quit screen, I force-quit one at a time to no avail. I then restarted and went back to sending out my iCal event but this...

I was given a large, macro filled Excel spreadsheet. I don't know what platform it was created on. I am using OS 10.2.8. I can't open the file in OS X. It crashes before it opens. I can open it in Classic mode. Is there anything I can do to run this in OS X?

Greetings, I was opening a large TIFF file (4.5MB) with Preview, and the rainbow color pinwheel just kept spinning and spinning. I could hear the hard drive repeating some kind of cycle, over and over, like a drum machine pattern. So, I clicked Command-Control-PowerKey and forced restart...

Hi. Running this crappy Tiger - installed Illustrator cs2 - tried to fire it up - crashed. Got this report: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Kern_invalid_address (0x0001) at 0xbf7ffac0 (and much more....) Can any of you wicked smaht kids help bring my puter back? Suggestions (other than kicking...

Safari has been crashing since OS 10.3.9. I upgraded to Tiger and Safari RSS 2.0 and it sytill crashes whenever I am searching on any of the search emngines. The unusal thing is that an after crash message never comes up, like Safari has unexpectedly quit..." and asking about reporting to Apple...

Hi, i got one of the new spec b imacs earlier this summer, and i've just recently run into an itunes crash that i haven't been able to fix. whenever i try to run it, i get an error report like this: date/time: 2005-07-21 20:05:47.346 -0400 os version: 10.4.2 (build 8c46) report...

Dear Sirs, I am only 3 weeks on Mac (PB15, 1GB Ram, 128 Video, 100 HD, Superdrive, Tiger 10.4.2). I am quite advance Windows users. I have spent few hours last night trying to solve my issue but without success. There are the facts: 1/ After creation of photo slide show in iDVD program has...

This is on a PowerBook G4 running 10.4.2 (just installed). Before the 10.4.2 update I tried to install iSync 2.1. It was a completely normal update, no different to any previous times. However, it reported that it failed to complete owing to "an error" which was unspecified and I could not...

I have a problem on two identical Mac G5/Dual 2.5GHz machines. Everytime I click on an MPEG2 file (.m2v) in a Finder window that is set to 'column' view, the Finder crashes as it tries to load the Quicktime preview movie. It doesn't matter what MPEG2 file it is or what machine. Is this a...

Hi. Four days ago I started getting an error whenever I tried to open a bunch of applications (such as Windows Media Player, iPod Updater, Final Cut Pro, etc...). The apps would simply quit, leaving me with an Application Launch Failure box saying something like: \"The application...