Greetings! The past couple of days my iMac has been crashing unexplainably. Mail.app crashes, Messages.app crashes, iTunes.app crashes, you name it. Within minutes, my iMac is at sub-zero freezing temperatures and the only way out of this is by doing the dreaded power-down (with the actual power button, yikes!) and restarting. It then functions normally for about five minutes before doing it all over again.
So I remembered reading somewhere that low available disk space on the boot drive could cause problems. This is totally understandable, so I've been moving all my huge files to my external drive and I haven't had to reboot now in approximately 30 minutes.
Is it possible that the low disk space on the boot drive to blame? At this point it's seeming like a very plausible explanation, but, what confounds me is that OS X never gave a single warning about "Running Low on Disk Space, please clear some space, etc., etc."
Does anyone know if this is what low available disk space on the boot drive causes? Dozens of crashes WITHOUT warnings about low disk space?
Thanks for any and all help,
Rafael
So I remembered reading somewhere that low available disk space on the boot drive could cause problems. This is totally understandable, so I've been moving all my huge files to my external drive and I haven't had to reboot now in approximately 30 minutes.
Is it possible that the low disk space on the boot drive to blame? At this point it's seeming like a very plausible explanation, but, what confounds me is that OS X never gave a single warning about "Running Low on Disk Space, please clear some space, etc., etc."
Does anyone know if this is what low available disk space on the boot drive causes? Dozens of crashes WITHOUT warnings about low disk space?
Thanks for any and all help,
Rafael