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The past couple of weeks there has been the odd funny glitch with my mac which individually didn't give me any concern but now, looking at them cumulatively, I'm beginning to wonder if something is going on.
I've had:
*text in open appleworks documents disappearing, although I was able to copy and paste it onto a sticky
*being unable to save appleworks docs cos they'd been deleted (related to the point above)
*both the in mailbox and the wee red button telling me I had a new email but there was no incoming beep and no message anywhere to be found
*the login box not appearing when I tried to wake the mac from sleep
*the cursor disappearing, although if I waggled the mouse drop down lists did appear, etc
*being prompted for my password ad nauseam in Mail, and then being told it had been rejected.
The appleworks problems I solved by deleting the prefs; the Mail password problem by reducing the frequency of the searches for incoming mail; the rest by switching the mac off and rebooting (in the case of the password and cursor problem, by means of the on/off switch rather than the menu)
I'm sure peecee users would be thrilled to have such trivial and easily solved problems as these! but them all coming together when everything normally works as it should has got me a bit concerned. Does this flag anything up with anyone, or am I just being paranoid?
Thanks for any help.
G3 bog standard iMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  
iMac   Mac OS X (10.3.8)  

Are you low on either RAM or free HD space? Things disappearing can indicate the lack of memory for them to be written to.

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