----- Original Message ----- From: "David Culler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Power Computing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 1:40 PM Subject: Re: Power Computing 180 help badly needed
> > > "David M. Knapp" wrote: > > > None of the counselors, including myself, uses Macs. > > Time to upgrade ;-) > > > The problem is this. A couple of years ago, the Mac started propagating > > files on the desktop. > > If I knew what files were reproducing I could advise you better. Please > provide more info. If you single click on an Icon and then select - Get Info > - under File in the menu bar you will be presented with data on that item. <<Excuse my confusing terminology. I meant to say, propogation of folders, not files. This particular problem was addressed in the documentation. The solution involved me going into settings and changing something. Right now, I'm at home, away from the documentation, and the reason that I can't specify which settings were involved is because at the time I read the advice, I was incapable of going anywhere on the machine other than the desktop. I could only close the whole machine down. Moreover, single clicking on the folder gave no result at all. As of right now, the folder propogation has stopped, but absolutely nothing is happening. The blank background for the desktopop shows up, but there's no folders, no toolboxes, no menues, no mouse cursor, no response at all. The only way that I can shut it down it to push the reset and shut it down when it tries to recyle.<< > > One of the desktops? In OS 7.6.1 you should only have one, assuming you are > using the term correctly. > <<I'm probably not. These are user versions of desktops. We have three of them. Members. Staff. and mine, as-- hah!--adminstrator. In case you're wondering what I was exactly administrating, it was mostly our FilePro database. When this problem first started up, I "adminstered" that over to one of the Win machines. I already had a Win version of the database program..<< > > Please explain how/why the file multiplication stopped. Clearing the PRAM > won't help you here. It sounds like a preference issue. Don't do anything > drastic like reformatting yet. > > > Better still, if you could tell me how to stop the propagation, I might not > > have to format. That way, I could save some of the members' favorite games. > > Do yourself a real big favor and make a back up before you do anything else. I > would be happy to correspond with you off list to help you work out some of > these problems if you like. > > > As I said, the problem didn't occur on the member's desktop. It only > > occurred in the staff directory, and in the administrative directory, run by > > me, especially when I went into the Mac's central file system. > > So you are saying the problem only happens when you view contents on the HD? > > > Any help that you could give me would be greatly appreciated by the Club, by > > me, and especially by the Mac. Right now the Mac is scheduled for the trash > > heap unless I can get it fixed. > > If you are going to trash it I'll take it. There isn't any good reason to > trash a perfectly good Mac :-) It doesn't matter if it was born in the last > century or not. Mac tend to lead productive lives for many, many years. Send > us more info and I'm sure we can help you. It would help to know what files, > how many, when they appear and where, file type and size. The Mac uses a > hierarchical files system that is easy to navigate and pinpoint a files > location. It really doesn't sound like a big problem. It could be something > as simple as to where you have an applications save setting directed. > > David > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > The box said "Requires Windows 95, or better." So I bought a Macintosh > > > > -- > Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
