on 12/19/00 10:54 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> "Eric L. Strobel" wrote:
>>
>> on 12/19/00 9:55 AM, Gregory La Vardera at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> on 12/19/2000 8:36 AM, (Duo/2400 List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suggest you get the free version of TechTool and rebuild your desktop
>>>> from
>>>> within that. TechTool will completely delete your desktop databases. Just
>>>> using the Finder to rebuild doesn't. The Finder isn't always very robust
>>>> in
>>>> that respect. Actually, though, come to think of it, you can just use File
>>>> Buddy to rebuild your desktop (or replace it). Anyway, bottom line is that
>>>> you probably need to completely torch your desktop database and allow it to
>>>> get rebuilt from scratch.
>>>
>>> Thanks, but I have done that - but I have not tried Techtool since using
>>> FileBuddy. Something tells me it won't matter.
>>
>> Do you mean that you completely deleted the desktop files and you're still
>> having the problem? I think, in that case, the next step is to delete all
>> those desktop files again (from every partition) and restart WITHOUT
>> EXTENSIONS. IIRC, there's some extensions that can mess with the proper
>> reconstruction of the desktop.
>>
>
> Now that Eric is saying that, I remember an issue with, I think, File
> Exchange, where you had to do something with enabling/disabling
> extensions, then rebuild the desktop, then re-activate extensions and
> restart. I unfortunately don't remember the specific. I think you had to
> boot with all extensions off, except File Exchange, rebuild the desktop,
> and restart with all extensions enabled again. Does that ring a bell
> with someone?
>
> Note that there is no guarantee that this will fix the problem...
>
> -Laurent.
I think that was with Mac Easy Open. You'd restart with that as the only
extension. Another one was some similar thing with Stuffit's extensions.
But, to be honest, I've never run across those in years. I just have
TechTool completely delete the desktop info on all volumes, let it restart,
and do something else while the desktop is completely reconstructed.
Oh, I do remember a problem where Office had a problem recognizing
documents. Had something to do with when the rebuild occurred relative to
when the partitions mounted. I solved that by putting Office on my System
partition temporarily, rebuilding, then putting Office where it belonged.
My first reaction when a rebuild fails is that there's directory damage and
a run of Norton usually confirms this.
- Eric.
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