[Editor's note: I don't have ASM installed and have a relatively small number of contacts in iAddressX. Anyone else have a large contact database who can comment on their experiences with iAddressX and ASM?]
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I have 10.2.1 installed and was getting a never-ending spinning beach ball when I would go up to the right corner of the menu bar to use ASM (version 2.03). Even force quitting the Finder would not restore it. The problem was resolved when I removed iAddressX from my computer. I love the program, but my address book has over 1,000 entries for my business and I think that this locked up the menu bar when I would go to ASM.
[Editor's note: I don't have ASM installed and have a relatively small number of contacts in iAddressX. Anyone else have a large contact database who can comment on their experiences with iAddressX and ASM?]
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Why do people want their OS to be unstable?
Why do people voluntarily add things like crapxies and APE to their OS X system? It just brings back the bad old days of crappy extensions on OS 9 patching things until they break.
APE is at the application-layer...
Read the APE web page. It cannot cause system instability. Perhaps it may cause an application crash, but that's about it -- it functions at the application, not system, level.
Re: Why do people want their OS to be unstable?
Personally, I like to make every process as efficient as possible - keyboard shortcuts at all costs, single mouse clicks, and only if absolutely necessary anything more than that. So OSX bothers me because I can't switch from one window in one application to a specific window in another application, unless they both happen to be visible on screen. You have to switch to the other app, and then switch to the window. I switched over from Linux, so I've generally got 5 or 6 terminal windows open at any given time -- you just can't keep that many visible on the screen. Add a couple of browser windows, some PDFs or Word docs, and it quickly gets hard to manage screen real-estate and application/task switching. It's this kind of frustration that makes people want to change the basic behavior of the OS/GUI. The only reason a lot of this stuff is unstable is that Apple won't make public APIs for this stuff in a misguided attempt to prevent people from customizing the GUI. In the end, it comes down to how much effort you're willing to put into it. If you want to mod things, you have to put up with reinstalling your mods after most software updates, incompatibilities with some software, and sometimes extra instability. For me, it's not worth it. I got over not having the Apple Menu by putting my Applications folder in my Dock. It's not as good, but I can live with it. Maybe if I've got some spare time, I'll write a Dockling that will do it properly. MacOS has never had a decent taskbar (like Win9x, Gnome, KDE, etc.), but I'll live with juggling desktop real estate. But I think it's naive to say that there's no good reason for people to want to hack the OS, when Apple gives them no choice. -Esme
Please....
Let's stay in the topic. Two things :
I used ASM & iAddressX together....
with no problem. But if they do give you a problem, then by all means, try Quitling instead of ASM. I would not give up iAddressX. Too useful.
Not ASM
The problem is not related to ASM, in fact. It happens with every menu bar extras whenever you have iAddressX installed and a long list of contacts. And, of course, you do not have access to iAddressX as well when it is updating its menus.
Same problem here
Unfortunately, I've had the same problem. As much as I _LOVE_ the concept of iAddressX, I had to disable it because it would lockup my menubar seemingly forever. I've got a large address book of business contacts (well over 2000), and iAddress couldn't deal with it. Actually, it seems that even Apple's Address Book has trouble keeping up... everything runs slow and clumsy. Big drag, because I've been anxious to ditch Now Contact, but I've gotta say that NC handled my database very fast and clean. |
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