Thanks to all for their help - have been able to forget about it today whilst enjoying the light but now back in front of the grey box and grappling with the mystery
Nigel Andrews wrote: > Simply reboot from System disc and re-nstall. Would that it were that easy: tried that an got an error message that the boot disk was not the correct one but it is the one supplied by Mac. I have tried Norton but that cannot see the Drive in which the System Folder is installed so it looks to me as if there is a major porblem with the catalogue tree or whatever. Paul Tansley wrote: >When you say you've done a "search" for the system folder. What do you mean >exactly? It shouldn't be that hard to find, it should live at the top level >of the main hard drive. i.e. double click on the hard drive, and there it is >(use list view). If its not, then what have you done with it? :-) I wish I knew - a search will show any file contained within the folder as indeed being within the folder but the folder itself has become invisible so I cannot access any file or control panel and having now booted into OSX and looked I cannot find it. Sounds to me as if tonight will be a lorra, lorra whiskey night and tomorrow I will burst forth like a butterfly from its pupaa all arrayed in the full glory of OSX! =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
