Midnight nightmare...

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2004-10-09 00:45

Gäst
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2004-10-09 00:45

I have a Lombard running os 9.2. Everything works great except that my computer locks up every night at midnight and i have to re-start it. What's the problem here?

Thanks;

JPW

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2004-10-09 01:03

Per
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Stockholm
2004-10-09 01:03

Maybe it's trying to index your harddrive at that time every night (and maybe that's the problem!?). Think you can find a schedule to change somwhere in Sherlock's settings.

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2004-10-09 01:37

Niklas Brunberg
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Linköping
2004-10-09 01:37

Are you running Internet Expolrer as an open application while this happens? I know that I used to have problems in OS9 when the date changed over midnight and surfing with Explorer. Though, it seldom froze completely, but if I waited a few minutes, everything was back to normal.

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2004-10-09 01:44

Gäst
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2004-10-09 01:44

It's like "Earth" says, it's trying to index your hard drive. So it's not locking up really, it's just default set to do this. Can be turned off in Sherlock, again - as "Earth" said.

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2004-10-09 10:40

Gäst
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2004-10-09 10:40

Thanks...

Great, thanks for your responses. Yes, i'm running IE when this happens. I've looked in Sherlock 2 for the setting to change and can't find it. It seems logical that there should be a control panel or something somewhere that will allow me to either turn automatic indexing off. I can't find one. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks;

JPW

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2004-10-09 11:51

superduperjacob
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Göteborg
2004-10-09 11:51

Ursprungligen av trkkazulu:

Thanks;

JPW

Try this PDF file (the complete Sherlock chapter from Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual from O'Reilly Publishing):
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosmm/chapter/MMChapter15.pdf
Good luck!

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2004-10-09 18:57

Gäst
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2004-10-09 18:57

Excellent!

I read the PDF and changed the indexing schedule for Sherlock. We'll see what happens tonight with IE. If it locks up and i'm surfing then i'll know that it wasn't the indexing and i'll try quitting IE tomorrow.

Thanks again for all of your help.

JPW

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2004-10-09 10:52

Mattias Hedman
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Sundsvall
2004-10-09 10:52

Should be in Sherlock 2. Can't remeber where though... in the prefs I guess.
Was to long ago I switched it off myself.

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2004-10-09 11:22

Niklas Brunberg
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Linköping
2004-10-09 11:22

Can't help you with the Sherlock problem, but I remembered that the IE problem was due to IE dynamixcally changing the date on it's history files from 'today' to 'yesterday'. If you like, try emptying IE's hstory some minutes before midnight and see if that helps, or just quit IE over the midnight minute.