John, Many thanks! Cathy
> ---------- > From: John Robinson > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:34 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: missing desktop icons [faked-from] > > Cathy, > > More memory will solve a lot of problems, but not disk problems, so you > still need to do maintenance ever so often, no matter the amount of > memory. I am sorry I can't help with Terminal questions for I don't tread > there, way above me. > > Possibly some of the MAC guys that live close to you would have a utility > that can be used to help clean the machine up. Cocktail can be > downloaded, but Disk Warrior and TechTools Pro need to have the disk to > boot from to do all the work correctly. > > John R. > > On Jan 24, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > John, > Thanks for the info,,,sounds like this is something that will cost, > and I'd rather spend my nickles on more memory, as the school is no longer > spending on anything Mac...I went into the terminal, as directed, but when > it gets to the password, nothing happens...I am the administrator for this > machine; does it require the password of someone in the system? The guy I > got the machine is no longer in the building, so I'm pretty much it... > > Cathy > > > > ---------- > From: John Robinson > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:12 AM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: missing desktop icons [faked-from] > > Cathy, > > I was waiting for someone else to answer for I don't really know > the answer. I would use Disk Warrior to rebuild the directory, then a > utility like TechTools Pro to scan for everything else and correct the > errors and optimize the disk. You might use Cocktail to then run over it > which will reset a plethora of items, one being the repair of permissions. > > > When one of my computers, or one that my children have, begin to > act nuts I put it through this routine and everything returns to normal. > I should do this on a regular basis to prevent problems. > > John R. > > > > On Jan 22, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > > > Greetings! > > I was importing music into iTunes and when I went to plug in my > iPod, the icon was nowhere to be found, seen, etc....Help! > > CCG > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050125/b11c9a24/attachment.html
