Excuse me sir, you want a solution to your problem, I'm assisting you. If you don't agree with me, scroll down to next comment. You should be grateful that someone tries to help you.
Yes, and I am grateful, but pretty much anyone realizes that reinstalling the entire OS will eliminate the problem. The whole point of asking for advice is to avoid this last resort.
Also, wouldn't you agree that archive/reinstall is an extremely primitive and time-consuming approach? Does replacing GB:s of data because a couple of bytes are screwed up strike you as a practical solution in line with Apple's "it just works" philosophy? It's more like looking in the manual for your new Rolls-Royce and finding "if your Rolls-Royce doesn't start, simply take out the engine, put it back and try starting again."
Macs are marketed under the pretense that they will be the end of all computer troubles, yet of all the time I've spent troubleshooting computers over the last year, 25% has been Vista troubles and the remaining 75% has involved tracking down strange voodoo issues with Leopard.
IMHO this files under constructive criticism of OS X. I'm not after its head or anything, I'm just saying that a system that's touted as so incredibly much more stable, solid and generally superior to Windows should be harder to break and easier to fix than this. Sure, Windows is crap in a lot of ways but it's certainly not this easy to break. It was, once upon a time (Win95/98), but it's been reinforced over the years to the point where it's very hard to bring it down with 3rd party stuff -- and if you still manage somehow, you can revert to a previous restore point. With OS X you can get all sorts of problems like hangs, freezes, perpetual blue screens etc due to some hardware driver or fairly innocent 3rd party extension, be it DivX, ShapeShifter or Logitech Control Center.
Again -- this is constructive criticism, not bashing or gloating. I want OS X to be be superior to Windows in
every way, not merely in some ways.
It's a 3rd party extension that refuses to close that does it, I get it sometimes with very large applications, ones that are accessing large amounts of files, or files that are in constant use, even during shutdown.
Are you sure the Logitech Control Centre is Leopard compatible? or that you've got the latest version? Could have been fixed in a new version.
Yeah, it was a new version... I downloaded it a few days ago. I have this MX Air mouse that you can use in mid air, and I figured I could use it on my Mac Mini (which I use as a glorified Apple TV plugged into my LCD TV) because I'm getting a little tired of trying to find a flat surface for the BT Mighty Mouse. Unfortunately the MX Air is useless without LCC because I can't customize its myriad of buttons. I was going to buy the new Logitech DiNovo Edge for Mac (I have it for my PC and it's fantastic), but I'm putting that off for now.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions, they indirectly made me realize that LCC might be the culprit.
