On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 07:32 PM, A.Tuazon wrote:
Hey folks, I just upgraded my Jaguar B&W G4/600 to Panther (not a clean
install just an upgrade... I know I know I should try to do a clean
install when possible) and now it seems I'm up the creek without a paddle.
I tried disk permission repairs but I keep getting the same problem. The
boot process seems fine, but when it tries to go to the finder desktop I get
NO menu bar and my drives don't appear. The dock works and as you can see I
still have access to my mail program.
In the dock when I click on the finder icon, the dialogue bubble for the
finder says Finder Not Running. Any ideas as to how to fix this problem?
BTW if I start a program through the dock I get the menu bar back but only
for that program, the finder still doesn't work. As well the startup disk
DOES show both drives and I'm able to choose them and restart.
PLEASE HELP!
Does this happen to another user on the system? Tried trashing finder prefs? (You can use Terminal, if you have it in the dock. Another hint, probably far too late is to drag your Applications folder to the dock on the right-hand side. Easy access to all your programs.)
But first thing I'd do is create another admin user, and log in as that user. If the problem persists try an archive and re-install of Panther.
If the problem goes away, then it's prefs problems with your original user, and you can go in and delete prefs files in Terminal. ('sudo -s' gets you a root shell, which will allow you to get into the first user's directories, you're looking in /Users/<username>?Library/Preferences. Delete com.apple.finder.plist )
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