Just a suggestion as I am not familiar with Safari. Download a fresh version (4.0.5) of Safari. Perhaps you will get two versions of Safari after the downoald is finished. Try running the newer download. It it runs to your satisfaction, try to delete Safari (original).
--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Tom <tba...@nmia.com> wrote: From: Tom <tba...@nmia.com> Subject: Safari screw-up To: "G-Group" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 11:32 PM A few months ago I downloaded an update to Safari and had some sort of trouble with it, so I went into Time Machine and got back the earlier version and continued to run it. When I had gone into Time Machine, it asked me whether I wanted to keep the newer version of Safari I had just downloaded, along with the older version I was retrieving, and I told it yes, just in case I could still get the trouble sorted out. So I ended up with two Safaris in my Applications folder: one named Safari, and the other, older one named Safari (original). Well, as it turned out, the only one of the two that would run without glitches was Safari (original), which is 4.0.5, so I threw the newer one away and have been running Safari (original) ever since. Today, Software Update once again suggested that I download the latest version of Sarfari, so I decided to give it another try. Upon relaunching, the new version jams. It gets halfway through the URL for the start page and just stops, so I have to quit it. Maybe the fact that my old version of Safari was named Safari (original) instead of just plain Safari had something to do with the update failing, I don't know. However, the Safari (original) 4.0.5 still launches and runs fine, so, once again, I threw away the newer version of Safari and just decided to keep running Safari (original). But I also decided that might be a good idea to change the app's name from "Safari (original)" back to just plain old "Safari." However, the OS won't let me do it. When I click on the name and try to get rid of the word "original," a box pops up saying that I don't have permission to do that. Under Get Info, it appears that I DO have permission to do that---anyone does, but it still won't let me do it. Another problem is that I can't make any aliases of Safari (original). I need to put some fresh aliases out on my desktops again (both monitors) for convenient launching, but now I can't make any. The menu choice under the File menu for Make Alias is grayed out. The attempted update apparently linked the old aliases to the trashed update, so they no longer launch Safari (original), so I have to make new ones. So, to sum up my problems, the OS won't allow me to change the name of the app back to Safari, nor will it allow me to make any aliases of it. Any ideas how I might solve these problems? Tom -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
