On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Glenn Schunemann wrote:
I've seen this happen when a HD is about to die. The directory structure gets hosed and weird things like you describe start to happen. I'd run diskwarrior on it ASAP if you have it. It may not be hardware at this point (if you can't hear the drive clacking) so a s/w fix like diskwarrior may make a big difference.
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 01:45 AM, TA Masters wrote:
On my desktop, things disappear, and at other times reappear. I do nothing to cause this to happen. I have twice put the computer to sleep and it will not awaken. Today I lost messages that would not send, perhaps a Cox problem. When I returned, I could not get it to start. I had to twice restart, and then had a frozen cursor.
If you don't have diskWarrior, try running Apples First Aid in your utilities file. Other things to try are rebuilding the desktop by booting & holding apple/option keys till the prompt window shows and select yes. You can try zapping pram by rebooting & holding p/r/apple/option keys to the 2nd bong. Another stab in the dark would be to open the prefs file of the system drawer and trash Finder, MacOS & system prefs. They will be restored on reboot and you will be fine I hope. If the machine isn't fixed and still misbehaving then go the DiskWarrior as suggested.
Eric
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