Hi Ben,
Thanks for that.
I'm pretty certain I tried that but to no avail, which then led me to
dig out Norton utilities to do a little disc repair having booted into
9.2.1. This led to the near disaster of losing OS X for a while.
Thank heavens for the ability on the G3 iMac still to be able to boot
into 9.2.2 from start up.
Martin
Late extra! I did repair permissions again which led to my getting to
the first stage of freezing again. I think you may have set me on the
right path to solving the problem.
On 29 Sep 2005, at 06:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
I have no idea but he first thing i would do is repair disk
permissions using the disk utility under os x.
ben
On 28 Sep 2005, at 21:32, Martin sheppard wrote:
I am experiencing a problem when loading a Classic application on my
G3 600MHz iMac running 10.3.9.
When going for my trusty Office 98 (most often PowerPoint but also
Excel and Word) while in my main administrator (= grown ups!)
account, both Classic and the app will load OK. However, a few menu
clicks later and both Classic and the app will freeze. After force
quitting from both Classic and the app and then starting again,
Classic appears to load all the extensions but then freezes with the
progress bar showing about 90%.
Bizarrely, when I try Office 98 from my kid's account on the same
machine it works with no problem. Equally oddly, I can then return
to the admin account, rebuild the desktop via System Preferences and
then get Classic and Office to repeat the same cycle.
Finally, when I load Classic with extensions off it then seems to
work happily, except it then tells me in PowerPoint that Quicktime
etc is missing. It also seems to work OK when I boot the iMac from
9.2.2. This odd behaviour only seemed to start when I upgraded from
10.1.5 to Panther and set up the kids' account.
I'm used to chasing down extension conflicts in OS7.x and 8.x, but
doing it through OS X seems to be a slightly different ball game.
When I tried to "sort" the problem using Norton Disk Doctor I
succeeded in crashing the whole machine leaving me with something
akin to a black "screen of death" complete with Unix(?) type prompt.
Only some frantic CD booting and re-building saved the day.
Any help would be gratefully received - I can do without any more
Norton problems.
Thanks
Martin
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