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From: harlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan)
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Prob., Boomerang ok?
Summary: Boomerang is ok, probably.
Keywords: boomerang
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Date: 18 Jan 90 18:18:59 GMT
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In article <3634@hub.UUCP> 6600bike@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Puneet Pasrich) writes:
| From harlanp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan):
| > Incidentally (perhaps) the first symptom was that Boomerang (recently
| > downloaded) would no longer come up in the control panel.  It worked
| > for maybe a week.
|
| That was a noted problem in older versions of boomerang.  With his newer
| releases, the author (can't remember his name from the top of my head)
| made a "preferences" file.  Boomerang still does crash occasionally,
| meaning that it dies.  I just unstuff an archive and continue working.
| Something to do with hitting 'cmd-.' too quickly when opening an SF
| Dialog box.  I know Boomer isn't causing problems of your hard drive.
| It DOES crash iteslf, though.  I don't know why your drive is acting
| weird.

I was using a newer version of Boomerang -- I suspect it was the
preferences file that was causing the problem.  And the problem
_wasn't_ related to hitting 'cmd-.', as I virtually never do that.

However, I must say that Boomerang almost certainly wasn't the cause
of my hard drive going on the fritz -- I had many people write to me
to say that they had used Boomerang for a long time without any
troubles at all.  I am sorry if I cast any doubt in anyone's mind
about the safety of using Boomerang.  There was just an unfortunate
coincidence.

Also I was 2.0b9, and I see 2.0 is now out there, so perhaps all
problems are fixed.  I will try it again.

Pete harlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
"Money can't buy happiness, but now that I am happy I could sure use
the money."