Hi Dan The install and archive option for Jaguar works beautifully, doesn't it? After doing that, if you continue to have problems, I would be inclined to think some of your user preferences are the source of the problem as those are archived during the process.
Obviously, you can get rid of this pesky folder via command line in terminal but I'm not unix savvy, nor do I ever want to be. Second choice is to log in as root and delete it. Another great choice is to use BatChmod which can be found here: http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=mac&id=12057/ batchmod131.hqx Ward On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:20 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > Ward et al: > > I'm running I0.2.2 on a 500 Mhz Powerbook G4. > > It got even weirder later. In subsequent boots the date and time would > flash on and off in the menu bar; if I made the icons smaller and > rebooted, they would be big again. I ran the Disk Utility from the OS > X CD, then ran fsck -y. Disk Utility found some errors, said it > repaired them. But after that it wouldn't boot at all, it would get > all the way to the deep-blue screen just before the desktop and the > menu bar show up and then it would stop. > > Eventually, I did a reinstall and now I'm up and running again in X. > The reinstall I did created a Previous System folder that I'd like to > get rid of, but when I try to trash it it tells me I don't have > permission, the items belong to root. What do I need to do to be able > to trash at least some of those files, as I need to free up some disk > space? > > Dan > > >Hi Dan, > > > >Without knowing what cpu and what version of OS X, your problems are > >too varied and too flakey. ?Try the basics i.e. Disk Warrior repair, > >fsck -y repair and repair your disk permissions if you're running > >Jaguar. > > > >Ward Oldham > > > > > >On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 01:29 PM, 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. > >> > >> 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. > >> > >> I've booted back into 9 so I can work (and send email). > >> > >> Any clues on what might have happened and how to remedy it? > >> > >> Dan Crutcher > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> 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>. > >> > > > > > >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>. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 4235 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021219/c07d749d/attachment.bin
