CyberTaz said:
Suggest you try this approach in this order:
1- Download the combo updater from Apple & reapply it:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx1049comboupdateintel.html
2- You mention nothing about your Office update status, so I also suggest
you (re)apply the 11.3.3 followed by 11.3.4 Mac Office Updates available
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx
3- Run Apple's Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions after the updates.
Be aware that Microsoft uses a non-standard installer that does not
leave the traces (BOM files) that Repair Permissions expects. That
almost certainly means that Repair Permissions will do nothing for your
Office problems. If you believe that Microsoft's installer/updater is
not a good Macintosh citizen and there is plenty of evidence to
indicate that this may be so (think fonts), Repair Permissions
potentially undoes the damage that the Microsoft installer did to your
*other* applications.
For the record, I have never found evidence that is is evil in this way.
4- Restart your Mac - and do so *at least* once per week. Don't be duped by
the common misconception that just because it's a laptop that it can simply
be allowed to sleep/hibernate with no ill effects. There's a lot of "house
cleaning" that goes on during shutdown & startup processes.
With respect Bob, there is plenty of evidence that is not really
needed. This lappy runs between OS X updates without ever being shut
down. Most of the janitorial work occurs at 0300, so leaving it awake
overnight once or twice per week is a good idea. If you want to sleep
it every night, then there are a few pieces of shareware, MacJanitor is
one, that will run the overnight cron job cleanups at more sociable
hours. The one task that occurs over a reboot is cleaning up your swap
files. That will only be useful if you are chronically short of memory.
Most of the good word will occur over a log-out log-in cycle. As soon
as a swap file is holding no useful swapped out fragments of programs,
(more or less) it is deleted. Logging out does a good job of achieving
this, but rebooting does get rid of the lot in one glorious sweep.
4a.- Same thing for your apps - if not using them Quit them. Don't let them
mill about in the background. They need to be restarted periodically in
order to "renew their spirit" if nothing else
OK, I note the smiley, but you *are* teetering on the edge of cargo
cult computer science here Bob. What *does* happen is that lots of
programs running simultaneously on a memory starved machine will cause
that parking lot called your swap files will get full and tangled. In
practice, there is very little advantage in quitting well written
programs. One with a memory leak, that is one that does not neatly
clean up its working memory, is best restarted often, if not avoided
completely. There is no widespread knowledge of Office programs going
feral in that way.
Having written that, I gotta admit you are right Bob. But you
oversimplified to the extent you reached a partially wrong conclusion.Heh! That is a neat way of stirring the 'Softies up. What happens when
you print to PDF than print the PDFs from Preview? If that works, it
puts most of the blame on Word doesn't it?
