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Best Tips For Macintosh Crash/Freeze Troubleshooting Posted: 21 Jun 2011 05:04 AM PDT Securing your data is the best that you need to do at all times you are using your system. However, the uncertain gets you unaware and the worst takes place. All your precious data is gone and you have nothing to do but worry for the loss. Technology has the Mac freeze troubleshooting options to help you avoid the frustration of losing your data. It avails various troubleshooting tips that you need to follow in order for you to keep your data secure at all times.  While working with your Macintosh computer, it is important to keep in mind what freeze and crash can do to your system. When your Mac freezes (crashes) typically, you'll notice things start to slow down, the hard drive might become noisy, and you'll keep seeing the "spinning wait cursor" (its official name, but commonly known as the "beach ball" or "wheel of death"). In case your system freezes or crashes in the event of working on a certain document; you should be prepared for the situation that you fear most. In such a case, you are liable to lose the entire specific document with all the alteration you did make on it forever. For your safety it is important to ensure that your command your system to save whichever work you are doing at any moment you pause. Generally, the little time the system takes to save this document engulfs the frustrations that otherwise comes when your Mac freezes in middle of something important and urgent. Why Does Your Mac Freeze/Crash? The most common reasons for your Mac freezing / hanging and slowing down are: - An application has a bug that is causing it to consume too many resources - An application is legitimately resource intensive and your computer is slow - Your Mac has too little memory for your demands - Too many applications are running at the same time - You have multiple applications all trying to use the disk at the same time How To Act If Your Mac Freezes? Saving your work from time to time works best in ensuring that your data is secure. However, crashing or freezing of your system can result to other severe troubles. For instance if the hard disk crashes you should be sure of losing all your data or having it corrupted forever. Crashing of the hard disk definitely means wiping out all your data from it. Avoiding such conditions is the need of backing up your entire data to other different location. What Happens When Mac Freezes? Freezing is anomalous behavior of your Mac computer. In this event, the mouse cursor moves normal way but a click do nothing the clock of your system may continue ticking. However, the keyboard behaves in a disconnected manner from the system. Moreover hearing the churning away sound of the systems drive is an indication of it working on something abnormal. You can completely do nothing on a frozen system. How Do You Fix the Freezing of Your Mac? The Mac freeze troubleshooting process requires you to follow various steps in thawing your frozen Mac computer. The trouble shooting process includes force quitting, resetting of the system and many others. You therefore have the option of choosing on which way to thaw your Mac computer. There are various steps to follow for an efficient force quit. 1) In case your Mac freezes in the cause of working with it; you should before attempting to do anything on the system press the Command-S button. This enables the system to save what you had not saved. 2) After the fast step, force quit the system. To force quit you need to press the Command-E button. This displays you a message in accordance with a button that reads Force Quit. Pressing on the cancel button helps your Mac to get things in operation as in the normal way. Guest Author: This is a guest article by Tim Edmonds, who is a technical writer with over a decade of professional experience. He is currently interested in Mac freeze troubleshooting.

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