Beware of suddenly turning off your mac.

I am going to tell you about a personal experience that occurred this afternoon with a Mac Mini in my house.

User Y was about to use firefox to surf the internet for a while and when he verified that it was not responding, he turned off the Mini by holding down the power button for 4 seconds. Then, when booting, the system entered a continuous loop of startups from scratch with a latency of 2 per minute, that is, it started to start and after thirty seconds it suffered a sudden restart without further explanation.
I have gone to see what was happening and I pressed Command + V at the beginning to see the text of the system while it starts up but I have not seen anything relevant since as soon as text curtains start to rain it restarts very quickly and I have not read anything so I have entered the bootable with Leopard to start the disk utility. When repairing disk, the disk utility said that everything was fine but when repairing permissions it has frozen after about 20 minutes (two attempts) until the mouse pointer so I have no choice but to install Leopard with the « Archive and install »maintaining user and network settings. Once installed everything has gone as if the catastrophe had never happened and examining the console I have read that the mac was performing one of those routine maintenance tasks when it comes to forced shutdown.

So mackeros friends, watch out for flushing or suddenly turning off the mac's. At least put your ear to the machine to check that the hard drive is not "scratching."