Ever since I installed PD 3.0 a couple of days ago, my computer has been behaving in a way, that PD 2.5 did not behave under OS X Tiger. I have many issues that need to be resolved.
My computer is a 24" iMac with 3 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.5.1
Some of the issues are:
1. Every time I start Windows XP Home inside PD, I get a strange error message. Next to an octagonal red shield (like a stop sign) with an exclamation mark, it says the following: "[C] Microsoft Windows XP Timed out waiting for the system to initialize. The volume has been ejected. You can use the init_timeout mount option to wait longer." I have no clue what this means, and what the effect may be on the performance of my computer.
2. When I try to close XP by clicking the red square button in the top right hand corner of the PD window, the VM crashes and won't close, I only see the spinning beach ball. Only Force Quit will close the VM. The same thing happens when I try to close XP via the "start" button.
3. Sometimes, I cannot close PD itself. I see the spinning beach ball, and only a Force Quit will help.
4. I have inexplicable freezes in many programs. Adobe Acrobat freezes, Printer program freezes, Preview freezes. On top of that I cannot Force Quit these programs when this happens, nor can I restart my computer by going to restart in the menu bar. I can only restart the computer by turning off the power and then turning the computer back on.
5. Ever since I installed PD, my external back up hard drive is spinning like a lunatic. I just never stops. It even spins when there have been absolutely no changes to any files. I use Time Machine, and before PD it would do it's job and spin once an hour for a minute or so. Now the drive spins about 20 minutes each time.
6. When another user is logged in on the Mac OS, and I try to switch back to my user account, I cannot do it. I also cannot logout the other user, via the menu bar. The computer freezes. I can also not restart. The only way out of this, is cutting the power and turning the computer back on.
There are other issues, but these are the only issues I can think of right now.
So far I have not even installed any Windows applications yet. Given how PD has been wreaking havoc with my computer I am afraid to so so. The way it is now, PD is not at all useful to me, because I constantly have to restart my computer after multiple crashes. Fortunately I still have a Windows box, I can run my applications on.
Does anyone know, if these are known issues, that are being worked on, and when a resolution of these issues can be expected. Does anyone know of any fixes.
Thanks in advance.
Abrasha
My computer is a 24" iMac with 3 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.5.1
Some of the issues are:
1. Every time I start Windows XP Home inside PD, I get a strange error message. Next to an octagonal red shield (like a stop sign) with an exclamation mark, it says the following: "[C] Microsoft Windows XP Timed out waiting for the system to initialize. The volume has been ejected. You can use the init_timeout mount option to wait longer." I have no clue what this means, and what the effect may be on the performance of my computer.
2. When I try to close XP by clicking the red square button in the top right hand corner of the PD window, the VM crashes and won't close, I only see the spinning beach ball. Only Force Quit will close the VM. The same thing happens when I try to close XP via the "start" button.
3. Sometimes, I cannot close PD itself. I see the spinning beach ball, and only a Force Quit will help.
4. I have inexplicable freezes in many programs. Adobe Acrobat freezes, Printer program freezes, Preview freezes. On top of that I cannot Force Quit these programs when this happens, nor can I restart my computer by going to restart in the menu bar. I can only restart the computer by turning off the power and then turning the computer back on.
5. Ever since I installed PD, my external back up hard drive is spinning like a lunatic. I just never stops. It even spins when there have been absolutely no changes to any files. I use Time Machine, and before PD it would do it's job and spin once an hour for a minute or so. Now the drive spins about 20 minutes each time.
6. When another user is logged in on the Mac OS, and I try to switch back to my user account, I cannot do it. I also cannot logout the other user, via the menu bar. The computer freezes. I can also not restart. The only way out of this, is cutting the power and turning the computer back on.
There are other issues, but these are the only issues I can think of right now.
So far I have not even installed any Windows applications yet. Given how PD has been wreaking havoc with my computer I am afraid to so so. The way it is now, PD is not at all useful to me, because I constantly have to restart my computer after multiple crashes. Fortunately I still have a Windows box, I can run my applications on.
Does anyone know, if these are known issues, that are being worked on, and when a resolution of these issues can be expected. Does anyone know of any fixes.
Thanks in advance.
Abrasha