J. R., Bruce and Jim… Many thanks! Y'all have given me a weekend's worth of tinkering. I =have= installed a couple of fonts recently. Had no idea they 'might' cause such devilment! ;-)
I'll get to work and see wheat happens. Happy weekending folks!!!! Amanda On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Jim Scott wrote: > >> >> On Nov 19, 2011, at 9:50 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote: >> >>> >>>> >>> To begin with I'd run permissions repair and DiskWarrior just to get that >>> out of the way. >>> > On Dec 2, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Amanda Ward wrote: > >> Thanks to John and Jim for their response!!! >> >> What I've done since my first post: >> >> Ran disk utilities. Found 1 permission error in an iTunes directory. >> Repaired that. Verify disk reported no errors. >> >> Then I nuked and reinstalled just the OS (10.6). Tried to update to 10.6.8. >> "Cannot expand the file. The file may have been corrupted" >> >> Re-nuked and reinstalled just the OS. Tried to update from a file downloaded >> on another computer. "Cannot expand the file. The file may have been >> corrupted" >> >> Re-nuked and reinstalled just the OS. Ran Drive Genius 3 verify. "Disk >> appears to be okay". DG 3 scan found no bad blocks. >> >> Re-nuked and reinstalled the OS. Restored from the earliest Time Machine >> Backup. Still the same problems. Ran Disk Warrior 4.3. Smart status was >> okay. There were directory errors… rebuilt and replaced. There were file >> errors reported, but I'm not sure what DW did about them. Still the same >> problems. Files are corrupted or have invalid checksums. >> >> I dunno!?!?! >> >> Amanda >> > > Hmmm. Drive Genius 3 verify is the same as running Disk Utility's verify. Did > you run the DG3 Integrity Checks (read and write, random and sustained)? I've > found that hard drives that start getting wonky but will pass a verify check > and a bad sector scan sometimes have read and/or write problems, especially > slowdowns. Run the DG3 tests for hours. That should ferret out any read/write > problems. If not, then something is causing your 10.6.8 update downloads to > be corrupted. Try getting the download through a Mac at a friend/relative's > house. Are you downloading to an external drive or to a thumb drive: maybe > that's where your problem lies? Or it could be a USB or firewire port/bus > problem. > > You did try purging caches by starting in Safe Mode (hold down shift key a > looooonnnnggggg time)? Have you tried AppleJack 1.6 for Snow Leopard? It's > also got a very thorough deep clean of caches option that may do the trick. > Neither one should be necessary if you've done a proper nuke and pave with a > clean OS install, but without using Migration Assistant or Time Machine to > import any of your "other" apps and data. > > What I find puzzling though is that a nuke and pave with 10.6 works OK, but > the problem occurs when you try to update to 10.6.8. Does the problem occur > if you run other 10.6 updates, but not the 10.6.xx update? > > Have you tried using another user account set up as administrator? Do a nuke > and pave of the OS only, then run the 10.6.8 download update as that test > user. > > Good luck! > > Jim Scott -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
