Hi Andy, You may want to start by booting from your OS X install CD and reset the password for her account. If that doesn't help, sometimes its just best to create another new user account, delete the old one, and move whatever data if any from the disk image created by her old deleted account.
Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On 3/21/03 9:53 PM, "andrew arnold" <a0arno01 at Louisville.edu> wrote: > I am trying to help a friend. He bought his daughter an iBook and I helped > him set up himself as administrator and created a limited account for his > daughter, Sarah. Sarah has tried twice to make a fancy drawing document she > created in Appleworks become the desktop pattern. I know this probably > doesn't work because it is not a graphics file... But here is the problem. > Now when she tries to log back in under her user account, she gets a > pinwheel that will run for hours and can't log back in. My friend can log in > as administrator, but we can't log back in as Sarah. Have repaired > permissions, run Drive 10, etc. to no avail. What is going on here? Any > ideas? > > Thanks > > Andy > > > Kind regards, > Andy > a0arno01 at athena.louisville.edu > > Remember the two most important things in life: > 1. Don't tell everyone everything you know > 2. > > The software box said, "Windows XP or better," so I bought a Macintosh. > > "Macintosh. We may not have done everything right, but at least we knew > the century was going to end."-Douglas Adams > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
