Hello all. I re-ran the Tiger disc install at the genius bar at the Braintree Apple Store. Not only diid it work but he found all these apps that were unnecessary and yes freed up 27gigs of space WAHOO \Thanks folks and i wont rtun DW any more
Sincerely, André Stark President BlackShark Films Inc. 23 Chilton Park Milton, MA 02186 617-206-7061 360-242-7648(f) www.blacksharkfilms.com On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:42 PM, BlackShark Films wrote: > >> Hi All: I Used Disk Warrior (on my MAc G4 notebook) to clean up >> some disc slowness > > Don't do that. Disk Warrior does not 'fix some disk slowness'. > > Disk Warrior is NOT a 'maintenance tool', any more than removing the > cylinder head and pistons and reboring the cylinders should be a > routine step in auto maintenance. > > You can do it but the chances of catastrophic failure is vastly higher > than with just changing the oil. > > DiskWarrior should be reserved for those times when you have major > directory issues that Disk Utility cannot repair. It is unlikely that > Disk Warrior could fix any 'slowness' in any case, as system lags and > such are typically caused by issues that DW doesn't even touch. Back in the OS 9 epoch I run various disk utilites regularly (well often if not regular). With OS X I only run Disk Utility's Disk Repair or Permission Repair if there is a specific problem. Only if Disk Repair fails to fix things do I resort to Disk Warrior. I think there have been two cases when Disk Repair didn't fix the problem. In one case Disk Warrior fixed the problem. In the other case DW tried and produced a whole mess of "recovered" files, most of which were junk. In that case the iBook's disk controller broke and really trashed the drive. > >> and somehow lost all my non MAc apps and desltop >> screen. I am limited to Safari, calculator and MacMail. If I download >> something like Quicktime update it goes through but i cannot see it. >> I cannot use the finder and i cannot get to disk utility to repair >> disc permissions or anything lke that. The apps appear in the dock >> but they won't open. > > It will be sub-optimal, but try running Permissions repair from the OS > installer disk. OH, OH, Bruce recommended Permissions Repair. THE END IS NEAR!!!! :) > > It might get you up to the point where things will work again enough > to finish the repair. > > If that doesn't work, you're looking at an Archive&Install of the OS. > Given the possibility of disk structure corruption I'd seriously consider backup then Nuke and Pave (Re-initializing the disk and a full install). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
