When I first got the mac, I had loaded a lot of things on there and when it started to go wrong, I just assumed that I had some crap that was causing the problem, so I wiped the machine but choose to retain the user settings. Upon reboot I had everything more or less as I left it. After another month or so when the machine was getting real bad, i choose once again to wipe it but this time format the HD and start from scratch – this was we could not blame the programs or add-ins but we could point the finger at the OS.
One of the problems that was common was randomly on the Dock when you opened a folder which had Fan View it is supposted to spring open as so:
Now this could work for weeks on end but then one day it would go – the symptoms were the fan View would be corrupted and the Dock would be gone with just the Icons Floating on nothing.
I had spoken and posted about this to various mac users and they somehow never had this problem. As I suggested I did a complete wipe and only installed the programs I needed and made sure any hacks installed were limited to just what was required to make movies work etc. One thing I have always blamed – was iChat, how this could corrupt the Dock is anybody guess but it seemed to me that this always seemed to be the case. I am now running the latest 10.5.3 Beta to see if this fixes the problem – it is defiantly the OS that’s at fault no matter what the MacHeads say.
