It's Friday ... (2014-01-10)

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

Found it interesting that trash build up on a mac can stop it from booting. Guess Simon will need to punish someone for not cleaning that up

I found that kind of strange myself. Was the Mac out of drive space or something?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

Found it interesting that trash build up on a mac can stop it from booting.

No, there was plenty of free space left on that drive. The emptying of the trash, twice, after booting into Safe Mode is just one of the "superstitious aborigine" rituals that experienced Mac users engage in to solve computer problems.

Actually, while doing a safe boot disables some things, it also moves other things to the trash, including all font caches and the dynamic loader cache. Emptying the trash to make sure the dynamic cache is really deleted is the thing that helps you get past a screen hang during startup.

The creation of an empty folder (or file) and then putting that in the trash and emptying the trash a second time is the superstitious part, which is a learned behavior that comes from restarting but still not being able to login after emptying the trash only once in Safe Mode. So now I make sure to empty the trash a second time before restarting since that always works.

I've picked up a lot of aboriginal behaviors in nearly 30 years of owning Macs.