My point is that leaving old bits of this and that in the system, especially old bits of failed remasters will increase the installed size and start to cause problems with the remastering process. I tried to remaster my personal system once without a cleaning and the result was a failed ISO. Not pretty!
Oh I understand that problem ..... all I was saying is that it seems not to be related to the freeze problem, as the freeze occurred when no remastering was taking place.

Oh!

I hadn't meant to imply that.

I only meant that a good clean up would help in remastering.
I think we don't as yet have enough info to pinpoint the cause of the freeze.