Mac compatibility? Crashes GD all the time

[rhynoclemmis]

Hello board,

Without offering you anything, not a single upload, I return with another question that has bogged me for 2 weeks now.
I switched to Mac (and God, I love it), but I experienced a quite unstable RW ever since. It just crashes. No explanations given. Mac is brand-new, RW is patched, my Gearbox and the UX2 TonePort the same.

Are there any tips out there how I can stabilise the program?

[DRJaM]

I did this...completly deleted the application from the drive and resinstalled everying using only the latest software. Gearbox, Riffworks, drivers etc. That stablized my install. I am not able to give you the exact path or locations at the moment. When I get home I can post the places where I removed the files as well as the cache files.

What OS build on the mac are you using?

[DRJaM]

Hi rhynoclemmis,

Here is something that someone forwarded to me about clearing out the MAC cache files, it does seem to help the stability.

Hope this helps you
David

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Delete cache files

Many applications rely on cache files to improve performance. The most obvious example is Web browsers, which cache images and other content from Web servers to speed up repeated access to the same files. Leopard itself maintains a series of cache files for improving system performance when using a number of features.

Cache files can present problems if they become corrupted or damaged. The operating system or an application that relies on the cached data may behave erratically or crash because it can't properly read the data in the file -- leading to potentially more corruption if an app crashes while it's writing to the file.

Unlike files in the Unix /tmp directory, cache files aren't cleared when a Mac is rebooted, which means that even when they aren't corrupted, cache files can sit around taking up space on your hard drive long after a given application is deleted. They can also retain settings and private information that you may wish to get rid of. As such, pruning cache files is a prudent choice, particularly if you notice that an application isn't as stable as it used to be.

Cache files exist for both the system (in the /Library/Caches folder at the root level of a start-up drive) and for each user (in the same location inside each user's home folder). Since cache files are not used to store application preferences or general settings, you can safely delete them without losing any data, and they will be regenerated as needed.

[rhynoclemmis]

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.
I'm running Mac OS 10.5.2