On Stability of XTension

[ Jerry — MacSolutions]

I posted a few weeks back thanking James and Michael for helping me with my own system because I suddenly was crashing constantly.  XTension would crash about 6 times a day missing events and once in a while, hang the machine.  I replaced memory, ran a different Hard Drive with a new OS and reloaded apps from scratch with no change.  Things are fine again and while the Lynx-PLC drops off from time to time and gets reconnected fairly easily, there's not much wrong any longer.  

What perplexed me was that a system that had run for literally ten years without a hiccup was suddenly having issues.  I had switched to a new(er) machine a few month before that with no issues whatsoever but with one of the more current updates, suddenly scripts were causing crashes.  James was thankfully able to isolate which ones and I was able to delete or recreate them and things started behaving again.  I do question what suddenly was so picky with scripts that existed peacefully for such a long time in the past.  I even thought that perhaps I had a corrupt database and replaced it with one for a year earlier still with no success.  I ended up putting the newer one back in place and that was what James was able to help me sort through and repair.

I still am scratching my head as to what changed in such a short timeframe.  I did have a lot of extra code that was "commented out" some from when I was still learning applescript and needed to clean much of it from the bowels of the application.

My point being, perhaps those of you with the same issues might ought to have " the guys" look it your database.  I would have NEVER found the issues without help.

Jp

On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Bob Ober <rmober123 at comcast.net> wrote:

> A while ago, my iMac started freezing up on a semi regular basis.  After running all kinds of diagnostics and finding only an occasional memory fault, I gave up an bought a new mini, transferred everything over and went merrily on my way for about three days when the new Mac started to freeze up too. After reinstalling the OS several times to no avail, I took the new Mac to the Apple store.  They tested the hardware and software and the resident genius told me the the problem was in one of my applications.  Based on his advice, I started replacing my applications one by one, but that didn't help either.  Finally, I erased my primary disk, did a clean install, and reinstalled as much of the software as I had readily available from scratch.  Somewhere along the line, I apparently replaced whatever was causing the problem as it now works fine.  Did the same to my old iMac which is now chugging along as good as new as well.   
> 
> BTW, cleaning up the software also allowed my old Powerlinc began working again, and the system no longer has an issue with the kext files.
> 
> Bob Ober

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