Sometimes your user preferences can get corrupted over time, or by
having the application they are for crash. I would try moving the
desktop and finder preferences to a new folder, forcing the OS to
create a new one. These are in the Users>[your username]
>Library>Preferences>com.apple.desktop.plist and
com.apple.finder.plist. If you move them to another folder on your
hard drive, then log out and back in (or just restart) the OS will
create new preference files in the preferences folder. None of your
settings for the desktop or finder will remain the same, but if it
works it's not that hard to put back your settings. If it makes it
worse, or doesn't work, then you can just move the old preference
files back into the folder, replacing the new ones. You could also try
verifying disk permissions in Disk Utility,
(Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility) and repairing them if it comes
up with any problems, this does fix a lot of problems! Hope I
explained all that well :-)
-Cyrus
On Feb 21, 9:57 pm, hillhippy <[email protected]> wrote:
> This weekend I decided that OS10.5 was old enough to try installing
> it on my PM 2.7 G5. Expecting that things could go wrong I kept the
> drive with OS10.4.11, and formatted a drive for 10.5.install Ran the
> installer and it consistantly failed if I tried to use the feature in
> the configuration assistant that copies your settings and files from a
> different drive.
>
> Feeling kinda smart I reformated the drive and just installed the OS,
> then used the migration assistant in the utilities folder to move my
> files and accounts, then ran software update to get everything
> current. This all seemed to work, but now I can't move any of the
> icons on the desktop, they are frozen in place.
>
> I have used get info to check the icons and they are not locked, I
> have rights to the icons, I Zaped PRAM, I can left click and put the
> icon in the trash. I thought this might be related to the migration
> assistant, but the icons are are frozen in both a new account created
> during the install and accounts that I migrated. Tried any Apple
> mouse in place of my Kensington with no change
>
> I Googled this issue and what I found was problems where icons and
> files wrer frozen and could not be opened or deleted, both of which I
> can do. I'm stumped, but glad I can still startup in 10.4.11.
>
> As always any help would be appreciated.
>
> Leo Hoyt
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