> Your crashing problems while attempting to repair would lead me to believe > that your permissions problems were either quite severe or you may have > other problems which still haven't been fixed. I would be running fsck -y > in single user mode or booting from an OS 9 Disk Warrior CD and performing a > directory check just to make sure.
I have been using fsck -y and Drive10 every weekend. And every month I use AlSoft's DiskWarrior and PlusOptimizer. I especially like the optimizer in the new Drive10 and will stop using PlusOptimer. I would say my two boot partitions, OS9 and OSX, are healthier than the average user's. My machines have always been massaged with up-to-date utilities; no disk crash or data loss in ten years. But even now, after repairing permissions with the Jaguar CD, I cannot even "verify" the permissions with Disk Utility. After a minute, the screen goes black and the computer has to be turned off and on to reboot. The source that I read (MacWorld?) said permissions should be repaired by booting from the Jaguar CD, that's what works for my machine, and so I can always at least do that. Gotta remember, my machine is a 1997 beige G3 desktop box. It may be souped up so it's faster than some Blue&White towers, but it's still got the old bus, PCI slots and a Sonnet processor that may confuse OSX. For instance, when I installed Jaguar, it took 4 tries to force the first Install CD through successive quits, each one going progressively further, and I never could get the second CD through after many tries. In spite of that, the old G3 has been so fast and stable under Jaguar since late August that I am not sure I will replace the machine in January as I had planned. It runs Office, PS Elements, and every other OSX application perfectly. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
