Thanks Hiro, I've been hemming and hawing all day as a prelude to the zeroing/reinstall. I'm obviously not in any hurry, so I spend time in my workshop building cabinets. It takes my mind off of and gives me a peaceful outlook on things.
I'll try what you've detailed here as I go along. But all in all, I concur with your view that a new install is the way to go. Sigh... At least I feel like I'm learning some things about the bowels of OS X, FWIW. Thanks again. L8R JD *************************** J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR http://www.thomastudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************** Support bacteria; they're the only culture some people have. on 4/17/05 12:03 PM, A-NO-NE Music at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > JD / 05.4.17 / 01:16 PM wrote: > >> I ran Terminal and entered in the prompt you provided. The first group of >> letters was identical to what you gave me. The remaining test was similar, >> but not identical. > > > OK, a couple more things to try. > Safe boot mode: Hold down shift right after you boot before gray > background and spinning gear appears, then you get to the login window > (if you have auto log enabled, disable it for your security). Upon > entering your user name and password, as soon as you hit enter, hold the > shift key again. > > The first shift+boot disables any 3rd party extension, and the second > shift+login disables any user dependent startup application. If you got > far enough with this, you should try one of these two one by one to > determine which one of two are the culprit. > > When you see an application doesn't start. Do you see the crash report > dialog? If not, open Console under Utility, and look for system.log. > You should find something like 'crash dump was killed by signal 5'. If > this is the case, your Unicode library might be corrupted. This happened > to me by installing M$Office English onto OSX JP locale. Micro$haft!!! > <rant> > It was clearly their false premise being OSX compatible, yet they charged > me 30% restocking fee on returning. Again, M$ prohibits non US version > to be sold in US, I ended up paying more than $1,000 for M$Office!! > </rant> > > If you did get crash reporter, hit [Report to Apple]. On the next > window, copy the top of the line to where it says 'Thread xxxx crashed'. > You can trash all the other unrelated threads, and send it to me > privately. I may be able to do a half-baked educated guesses. > > But all in all, scratch install is the way I'd do if I were you :-) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
