An application quits, and you see a message asking you to decide what to do next. You can, among the choices, decide you just want to reopen the application and maybe subject yourself to more punishment. Perhaps click the button that promises to send a report about the problem to Apple, hoping that, among thousands [...]

Whenever something goes wrong with your Mac, you feel comfortable with an easy solution. Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, the pat answer when your system began to crash more frequently than usual was to rebuild the desktop. So what did that accomplish? Well, the desktop database was used to store file [...]