Jerry, Thanks for the heads up,,, after I'm sure everything has been moved to the external drive, I was planning to reinstall the system OS, as a last-ditch (as you say, don't have much to lose)...Hopefully you can come across that software--keeping my fingers crossed! Cathy
> ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Jerry > Freeman > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 1:12 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: force to trash resolved [bcc][faked-from] > > On Oct 12, 2005, at 7:14 AM, Green, Cathy wrote: > > > G3 iMac (Blueberry) with 10.2.8 (Jag), and most of my stuff is on > > the 160 GB external drive... > > Aah, my first modern Mac. The directory problems may be hardware > related, possibly a failing HD, the replacement of which is no causal > task on an iMac all in one. I would back it up, mail, bookmarks etc. > and reinstall the OS, what have you got to loose. If that doesn't > work, and it turns out to be hardware related, you would be well > ahead to buy a newer/used Mac. There should be a copy of TechTools or > Apple Hardware Test floating around to verify the HD and CPU. I'll > dig through my junk box, but I think I gave them away. Lastly, your > scanning problems may be attributable to RAM deficiency...jf > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051012/1aa87a73/attachment.html
