I just haven’t been prepared to journey across Oxfordshire to help someone with a tired looking Dell running Windows 98. I will continue to refuse encounters of that sort, but a reasonably recent PC running a modern OS should not be beneath me when it or its owner has some trouble.
The Mac didn’t stop panicing on start-up no matter what bit of software I removed, what cache I cleared, which plist I dumped.
My MacBook Pro has been running out of space for some time and I have put off the inevitable tidy. It was down to its last 20 GB where it always starts to get into trouble. (That seems like a lot to me as I had older macs that didn’t have that in total).
Anyway time [...]





