Mac Help is on the Menu Bar>Help. Has nothing to do with AOL, you don't have to be connected the the Internet to use Help. When an Application opens, its Icon appears in Dock. When the Application Quits, its icon disappears from Dock?unless Keep in Dock is chosen. The fact that these little Applications are disappearing from Dock indicates that both are crashing upon opening, indicating a Finder error. You should either bring this Mac to the monthly meeting, or make arrangements to have someone knowledgeable look in on it. I strongly suggest you back up everything possible. While the problem may be ever so simple, it is impossible to know what you may have done to date. Tiger has fewer problems than any other OS X version. Were it mine to do, I would back this baby up in-total, erase the HD, and start over?preferably with Tiger...jf
On Feb 23, 2006, at 6:46 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > Latest developements: read Group's thoughtful reponses to my > problem. Lee suggested VersionTracker site. Went there, found > iEmpty. Looked good -- "simple, elegant." Downloaded it, > installed it according to instructions. When I double-clicked on > it, it went into my dock, then promptly disappeared without > opening. Repeatedly. > > Russ suggested MacHelp>root>enabling the root user. Urged care and > caution. Timidly decided to try that. Spent much time, never got > to online MacHelp. Maybe my AOL, maybe my stupidity. Back to > drawing board. > > Jerry said he'd had success with BatChmod. Went back to > VersionTracker, downloaded that, installed it according to > instructions. Double-clicked on it; it went to dock and > disappeared -- see iEmpty, above. Is it any wonder I'm nervous > about trying to upgrade to Mac 10.4, and what am I doing wrong? > > Nolan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060223/e8ada8d1/attachment.bin
