That was the original circumstance. However, the same problems with saving occurred even when I had not removed the thumb drive between opening the file and attempting to save it.
So, I mostly glaze-over upon reading of your Mac woos, however I am a potential Mac convert (the zealots are getting to me) and we're thinking of setting my baby sister up with with a iBook. So, are you A)doing bad, mean and naughty things to your apples to make them cry, B) having bad luck or C) really pushing the envelope (is that the same as A?) or D) some combination of the above?
I mean, aren't Macs supposed to be stable, low-maintenance/tweaking?
I don't think I'm doing PARTICULARLY bad, mean, naughty things. Originally, I was being a bit naughty - opening a file off this thumb drive, leaving it open while unmounting the drive and removing it, then coming back later and trying to save the file. That SHOULD have a more graceful failure mode, if it's meant to fail at all, but it didn't. But today on my laptop I was doing nothing untoward. I had these files open in SubEtha, left the room for half an hour, computer went to sleep, and when I got back and woke the computer up, SubEtha hung when I went to save the files. I just think it's odd that I was having the same problem with the same software (which is a freaking text editor - not exactly Matlab here) on two different machines within 2 days
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i know very little about SubEthaEdit, but this situation sounds an awful lot like either filesystem corruption on the thumb drive, or like hardware failure. wedging the Finder as well as an application makes it sound like the kernel is blocking on something.
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I mean, aren't Macs supposed to be stable, low-maintenance/tweaking?
-B.
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zenspider, is that closer to the aforementioned case?
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