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CRASH after installing AUDACITY.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:04 pm
by mikey
After installing Audacity late yesterday afternoon I opened it up to explore it. It 'hung' and wouldn't open, and the Mac 'Beach Ball' just went spinning indefinitely. I tried forcing Quit which it wouldnt. A 'crash' switch off was the only thing that worked. On re-booting I got my desktop but when I tried to load ANY of my programmes they all 'hung' indefinitely - Force Quit wouldnt work at all - and switching Off on the power button was the only way to get a shut-down. As i tried once more - to run Audacity - it briefly came up with a message that the Audio Drivers weren't set, and a faint semi-regular click could be heard in my headphones, which persist when I try to re-boot. So, at the moment, my Computer is completely down. Can you advise?
I run Leopard, with an Intel dual core, 2.4 gig. I ran REASON and ABLETON up to this point with NO problems on the Macbook before.
Re: CRASH after installing AUDACITY.
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:10 pm
by kozikowski
We had a machine do that in the video department. Someone captured a video without looking at how full the system disk was and it was already at 99%. It killed the machine.
Will it open up in Target Mode? Start the machine while holding the "T" key down. You get a FireWire symbol floating around the screen.
FireWire connect this machine to another Mac and use the second one to pull work off the first one. Delete as much as you can from the stuck machine, then unmount the first one from the second one (drag to trash), disconnect the FireWire cable and restart.
If all this is a little magic to you (and it is pretty serious magic) get your Mac service people to look at it. I don't think the problem is permanent or fatal.
Let us know how it goes.
Koz
Re: CRASH after installing AUDACITY.
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:18 am
by mikey
Many thanks for your reply. Actually the Hard Drive is not full at all. Its 160GB, and i've only used 36GB........
Re: CRASH after installing AUDACITY.
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:27 pm
by kozikowski
That's actually worse. Can you get into Disk Utilities? Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities.
Do a Verify Disk. I bet the system drive doesn't make it. Alternately, did you put extra memory in the machine yourself? That's something else the video people like to do that can reduce a machine to a pile of trash.
Koz