5/12/03 chris : >First, check your Date/Time control panel, and make sure the correct date >and time are shown.
And if those dates don't stick between restarts or shutdowns, zap the PRAM (hold Command-Option-P-R during startup until you hear more than 2 startup chimes), which will reset various other settings too (sound level, AppleTalk port, etc.) If the date/time still don't stick, you need to change the PRAM battery (that's a lithium battery, model depends on the mac model, some extremely easy to access like the LC, some incredibly complicated like the 8500/9500). >I've lost a lot of faith in Symantec recently I have no bad feelings about other Symantec products, but I lost ALL faith in Norton products long ago, except Norton SpeedDisk which worked normally at least before OS X (didn't try it since, as previous experience made me decide to leave Norton 5 or 10 years to adapt to OS X or hopefully stop their mac line). The disk utilities I consider good: - Alsoft DiskWarrior to repair & optimize the disk catalog. - Alsoft PlusOptimizer to defragment data (supports OS X disks but runs under OS 9). - Drive 10 (covers the same needs and more without requiring OS 9, but I still prefer Alsoft's products). - Data Rescue to backup data from broken disks before attempting to repair them, which can worsen things specially if using Norton. - Apple's Disk Utility to repair OS X authorizations from time to time, like after running installers. Check documentation or ask tech support before trying disk utilities on journaled drives, as I don't know the current status on that matter. If you have choice, NEVER run Norton products first: keep them as last resort (that way in most occasions other products will solve problems before trying Norton, and when they don't Norton usually doesn't either anyway). Buying Norton products is similar to buying Microsoft products or mac antivirus: not because they're good or even needed, just because their name is everywhere and everybody scares you into thinking you must have them. >This sounds like a bad hard drive. And/or a Norton SNAFU (remember he said Norton "repaired" dates). ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
