Sudden problem with Texshop

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Glad to see the problem resolved, and we can avoid creating a bigger one
around names.

Best wishes,
Paulo Ney

On Thu, May 26, 2022, 11:11 PM David Edward Bruschi <
david.edward.bruschi at posteo.net> wrote:

> Dear Mr. de Souza,
>
> unfortunately since we are neither friends nor colleagues, the traditional
> and correct approach of referring to people using their last name and title
> as a form of respect and courtesy remains in place, and rightly so.
> The modern fake and artificial pretence of democratization and
> equalization of everybody's position, status and relationship in life is
> just another consumistic whim of a capricious West where there are not
> enough real problems. We can see the consequences in the American campuses,
> for example.
> Thereby, I confide in your understanding and I will maintain a
> professional and respectful distance until a deeper or working relationship
> is established.
>
> Regarding the problem mentioned in my query, I have solved it by
> formatting my computer.
> Texshop now works. I hope this does not occur again.
>
> Best,
>
> David Edward Bruschi
>
>
> On 05.05.22 01:01, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>
> Dear Mr. Bruschi,
>
> I would appreciate being referred to as just Paulo Ney, my first name.
>
> Adding to what Richard said, he should be the point man here:
>
> I believe it does not have much to do with TeXShop, except for
> the fact that TeXShop and all the programs it calls may imply high
> memory use. Probably the same would happen if you called Maple
> of Mathematica and tried something hard to compute in it.
>
> If your machine has or is developing some kind of memory problem,
> the symptoms will be very close to what you describe.
>
> I would recommend testing your RAM with Apple's user diagnostics
> tools is easy. Simply restart your Mac, and then hold down D as soon
> as it restarts. If you did it correctly, your computer will either boot
> into
> Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test, depending on the age of
> your machine.
>
> Apple silicon Macs require a different way of entering Apple Diagnostics.
> You must first shut the Mac down and turn it back on, holding down the
> Power button until you get to the startup options screen. Then, press Cmd
> + D.
>
> Follow the prompts and let the test complete.
>
> Best,
> Paulo Ney
>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 6:51 AM David Edward Bruschi <
> david.edward.bruschi at posteo.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear Mr. de Souza,
>>
>> thank you for your email.
>> I would appreciate being referred to as Mr. Bruschi.
>>
>> I have the latest version of TeXshop, operating on an iMac that is 2
>> years old.
>> Notice that it worked flawlessly until Thursday last week.
>>
>> What happens now is that every time that I open a .tex file with TeXshop,
>> or just load TexShop per se, the computer becomes non responsive, the Magic
>> Trackped deacivates, the Bluetooth seems particularly to fail, and the
>> computer either works after some time, freezes completely or restatrs on
>> its own. I have never seen anything like this in 14 years.
>>
>> I tried to reinstall MacTex and TeXshop but to no avail.
>>
>> I hope that you will help me with this.
>> Best,
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 02.05.22 16:08, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>>
>> Dear David,
>>
>>
>> Can you give us more detail? Is this a new installation of TeXshop? How
>> does it fail to load?
>>
>> Paulo Ney
>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2022, 6:48 AM David Edward Bruschi <
>> david.edward.bruschi at posteo.net> wrote:
>>
>>> To whom it may concern,
>>>
>>> my name is David Edward Bruschi and I am a scientist at the Institute
>>> for Quantum Computing Analytics (PGI-12), Forschungszentrum Jülich,
>>> Germany.
>>>
>>> I have ben using Mactex and Teshop for 14 years on multipled Apple
>>> devices, and I have had since today a very strange problem with my iMac.
>>> This is a relatively new computer (2 years old) and had no problems
>>> whatsoever until today.
>>> Since today, Texshop does not load and the Magic Tracpad simultaneosuly
>>> connects and disconnects.
>>>
>>> I have never had such a problem on any computer, and the smae
>>> configuration and setup worked flawlessly untile a last Friday.
>>>
>>> Any hints at what I can do would be helpful.
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Dr. David Edward  Bruschi
>>>
>>
>>
>
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