The Mac is Back!

You may have read my earlier posting regarding my woes with my Mac Mini. I'm happy to report that those problems, for now at least, appear to have been eliminated.



One of my Mac-head friends from work came up with the winning suggestion: disable the power-saving option that turns off the hard disk. I don't really understand why, but for some reason that fixed the problem. The only thing I can surmise is that somehow the disk was getting caught in some kind of cycle on/cycle off loop or something, because the problem only manifested after I had been away from the computer for an extended period of time. It's hard for me to believe that there aren't a lot more people yelling about this problem if it's just a bug, though. Maybe it's because while I left the option to power down the disk enabled, I disabled the "sleep" option so the Mac would never go to sleep. Perhaps the two settings in combination cause the Mac to lose its marbles.

I'm just glad the problem seems to be fixed. Now I look forward to actually using the silly little thing again. :)