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HELP ASAP

puckhead193

puckhead193

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May 25, 2004
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i was doing an application online and i was going to print it out, and i was switching printers. and it froze so now i can't do anything. I don't want to lose anything, what can i do besides force quite.. I thought this wasn't supposed to happened on a Mac :( :( :( :(
PLEASE HELP
 
Balin64 said:
If Safari or your Mac froze, the above poster is right. Sorry. :eek:
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Not necessarily true if it was just Safari that froze. If the information you want is on the screen, you could do a screen capture and save as an image. Of course this will not help if the application was a long one on several pages.
 
puckhead193 said:
I thought this wasn't supposed to happened on a Mac :( :( :( :(
PLEASE HELP
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Individual apps can freeze--they generally won't bring down the whole system, though.

I suppose it's too late now, but you could have tried switching the printer back. That sometimes works to "unfreeze" an app. If you got your data back, then you could print to PDF, since switching printers is what seemed to cause the freeze, you'd at least have a PDF. Then switch printers, possibly freezing your app, but no problem, since you can just print the PDF.
 
I just spent the last hour redoing the whole thing. I saved it to a PDF before i printed it so i woudln't loose everything. It does suck what happened but whatever.... its done... now lets see if it get the job.. (counselor at a local day camp)
Thanks you all for your help :)
 
Sorry bout that
My only advice would have been to force-quit, open safari and hope the application is stored in the safari history.
Sorry again, doing things over sucks! :(
 
It might have been in Safari's saved forms...
But I suppose it's too late now...

Oh well, for future notice: Command-Shift-A fills in forms with previous values and/or Address Book info.

reality
 
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