The problem has been going on for years. I have no reasonable way of recreating it, but the next time it happens, I'm going to have to start a cross-country trip to drop my iMac off with a very large battery pack. You should make a screen recording with your phone. Don't try to use the OS screen recording feature because that could perturb whatever was making it happen the second time. Back in the old days, you'd get a floppy from your Mac user group and you'd hit the app and you'd ResEdit it. But these days, every app updates itself or gets updated by the Mac App Store or whatever.

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