MacBook Pro :: Skype Crashing It For Unknown Reason?
Jun 7, 2012
I have had a Macbook Pro 15" for about a year now, and suddenly Skype seems to be crashing my computer. The computer has 8gb of ram with an i7 processor, so i have no idea why Skype, is suddenly crashing up my computer. Ive been using, Free Memory, to track how much ram is available on my computer at certain times, and now, when i launch Skype, it goes down to 18mb out of 8 gb. I don't know why this is happening??
Info:
MacBook Pro, Intel i7 Processor with 8 GB of Ram
I know a lot of things that have to do with computers but they are very general things. When it comes to a computer crashing, I have no idea how to find out why it happens. My late '08 Unibody MacBook has been crashing on the frequency of 2-3 times a day or so and is very frustrating! I have no idea why it's doing it, but i did copy the thing I get when it restarts. Here is the log for the last 3 times it has crashed
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i don't know how to solve this problem.
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When trying to playback the timeline, for what ever reason... crash! Doesn't happen all the time, and not for any particular reason. Also, when I tried to export the project, it got to that magic 7% and crashed. Export settings were as follows:
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This is optimised for Vimeo
Information: Power Mac G5, Macbook Pro 15" Unibody Mac OS X (10.6)
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Info: MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10)
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I have been sitting in front of my computer for the last 20 minutes and in that time my available GB went from 27.4 to 26.75. The space available keeps slowly diminishing. The only program I have running now is Firefox, I closed everything else, I am not downloading anything. And yet something is eating space in my computer! Â
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Info: MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Formerly had Corsair "Mac Memory"
