Hi Andrew,
Sorry about the prefs, etc., but glad that everything's working now.
One thing that's definitely worth checking... and I mention this because I spent yesterday working on a friend's G4 whose motherboard had just been replaced -- go to <http://www.macosxcocktail.com/> and download the latest version of Cocktail. Cocktail is an excellent disk utility to have in any event -- run the pilot regularly -- but there is one additional benefit that will be of particular use in your current situation. It will tell you right away if the people who restored your data installed the BSD subsystem or not. (If not, Cocktail won't run.)
When I was working on my friend's Mac, I discovered that whoever replaced her motherboard reinstalled Panther *without* the BSD subsystem (god knows why, presumably to save time, or something). She wanted to run apps that needed BSD, so we had to reinstall the entire OS.
The BSD subsystem is an optional install, but it is required for many applications (like, for instance, Cocktail, and -- I think -- both iKey and QuicKeys). Hopefully, the people who restored your data weren't as lazy/misguided/whatever as the people who replaced my friend's motherboard, and the BSD subsystem was correctly installed after they replaced your drive. But it's worth checking now -- if it's not there, I can guarantee you'll run in to problems down the road if you don't reinstall Panther + BSD now. (It is installed by default if you do an "Easy Install" instead of a "Custom Install.")
- Darcy
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On 25 May 2004, at 04:06 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Thanks to all who continued sending advice while my computer is in the shop. It's too late, now...
I've replaced the original drive with another of equal size (I had only used 8 of its 40 GB, and I can't concieve ever needing a larger), and had the repair people restore my data, wh. they seem to have done well, save that a lot of prefs. etc. seem to have been lost, as I feared. Too late to do anything else, now... _______________________________________________
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