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You may remember me asking whether it was ok to not bother shutting-down
PowerBooks, simply putting them to sleep instead. I've now been doing this
for a couple of months, so thought I'd report back.

The bottom line is, yes, you can do it quite happily. However, I have
noticed a few problems.

First, every now and then the machine will become sluggish - because memory
has become fragmented? - and requires a restart. I find this happens every
2-3 weeks.

Second, this morning the Edit menu of some of my applications vanished!
Either totally, or was shown on-screen but didn't exist if you tried to use
it. A restart /didn't/ cure it, which had me worried for a minute, but a
parameter reset followed by rebuilding the desktop did. (I don't know
whether both were required, I've just got into the habit of always doing a
parameter reset prior to rebuilding the desktop.)

Third, I'd also got into the habit of never quitting my most-used
applications, especially Claris Emailer. Since Emailer only deletes expired
mail (including that marked for deletion) when you quit, this meant that
when I did finally quit after several weeks, it took about a fortnight to
delete mail!

However, these things aside, it's a real joy to be able to skip the startup
process and get straight to work (or play).

Ben

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