On 12/18/02 13:29, Dan Crutcher wrote >Last night I had to boot into OS 9 to do something and when I booted back >into OS X this morning, I found that my desktop didn't look the same. The >icons, which I had made smaller, were large again. The menu bar was no >longer displaying the time and several other menu bar icons were missing.
This looks like the preferences are at the defaults, and some login items are not starting up. Are you starting up as the same user as before? I once saw something go awry because I had moved the users folder to another partition and symlinked it to the place on the boot partition where Mac OS X thinks it should be. (translation: Mac OS X expects the Users folder to be on the same drive where Max OS X is installed. I copied it to another drive in the terminal using the unix command ditto. So that Mac OS X wouldn't have a coronary when it didn't find the folder I used the unix version of an alias to trick unix into finding something that pointed to the users folder. This version of an alias is called a symbolic link or symlink for short.) Something forgettable happened, but the symlink broke, and Mac OS X made me a new default users folder. This would account for the missing preference behavior. > >When I tried to launch my email program (QuickMail Pro), I got a "this >application has unexpectedly quit" message. I restarted several times and >each time got this behavior. It might be needing some links inside your user folder which are no longer there. Bill The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 28 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
