erratic behavior after waking computer

[Derek Currie]

On Jul 19, 2007, at 07/19, 3:00 PM, omniweb-l-request at omnigroup.com  
wrote:

> This is happening pretty consistently with the latest final builds  
> as well as the nightly sneaky peaks.
>
> Upon waking my Macbook Pro up, OW shows some odd behavior.  Namely,  
> I can't resize the window.  When dragging the bottom right corner  
> of the window, instead of resizing it scrolls down the webpage.  I  
> don't notice it if the MBP has slept for a short amount of time,  
> but it happens if the MBP has slept over longer periods of time  
> (ie, overnight).
>
> Using 10.4.10, OmniWeb 5.5.4 (v607.17) currently, no haxies

Then what you need are some haxies! (I am running 4 of them, but just  
joking).

On my MacBook Core 2 Duo 2GHz with 3GB of RAM and 10.4.10 (build  
8R2218) up-to-date with OW v5.5.4 (v607.17) I am not having this  
problem.

Be sure you perform a repair of your hard drive and a repair of your  
permissions. Then I would suggest going through the litany of OW  
troubleshooting tips. OW does become corrupt with time in one way or  
another. The easy things to start with are: (1) Flush Cache, see if  
problem is gone. (2) Clear History, see if problem is gone. (3) Quit  
OW then pull the preferences file out to your desktop and restart OW  
to see if the problem is gone. (4) Go get the freeware app AppleJack,  
install it, read about how to use it, boot into single user mode and  
run it manually so you can delete all your account's cache files and  
check all your account's .plist files. Also have it delete all your  
virtual memory. Boot back into your account and see if the OW problem  
persists. (5) Uninstall OW, reinstall and see if the problem  
persists. More on this ahead:

The last time I had trouble it turned out to be in my Bookmarks.html  
file: ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Bookmarks.html. I ended  
up doing a complete deinstallation before I figured this out. With a  
clean install of OW v5.5.4 I restored all my other files from backup  
EXCEPT that file. I then IMPORTED the bookmarks from it and all has  
been well ever since.

The basic method is to create a folder to hold ALL the files from  
your current installation. Be sure you know how to put everything  
back. I like making folders to hold items that have names indicating  
the path to where the enclosed items belong. With everything out of  
the Library folders and Application folder do a clean install of OW.  
Immediately check if your problem exists. If not then quit OW and add  
back some of your files, rechecking if OW now shows the problem, etc,  
until you figure out the file that went wonky. You may be SOL and  
have to trash the file forever, or you may be able to import its  
elements as I did above.

IF at that point you still have the problem, there is a pretty good  
chance your hard drive is dropping data, which is to say that you  
have some bad sectors. All hard drives eventually have this problem.  
Sadly it is becoming more common with the cheaper, faster, denser  
hard drives being pushed out of the factories. A good application to  
check and repair sectors is Media Scanner, which is part of  
SpeedTools Utilities from Intech Software Corp. I have friends who  
suggest performing multiple low level formats of your boot volume via  
booting to your MOSX installation DVD (or CD) and running Disk  
Utility. I tried that. In my case it did NOT (NOT) map out all my bad  
sectors on a bad hard drive. Media Scanner DID. There may be other,  
possibly cheaper, applications that can do the same thing. TechTool  
Pro (currently at version 4.5.3) is not one of them, but it will test  
your hard drive and tell you if the bad sectors exist.

Hope that helps!

As ever I am sure I left out some other steps to try. Please tag them  
on to this thread folks!

:-Derek

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Derek Currie
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