frozen icon revisited

2010-01-14 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
hi- again i was able to see the problem and what happens is the actual documents don't open and freeze the computer. i thought it was the icon, but it is not. the icons still point to the original software, so they haven't been highjacked by other software. when you try to open the

Re: frozen icon revisited

2010-01-14 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
program. -Elliott Price Quoit - Macintosh Computer Services hobbittech.com/quoit On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:41 AM, gladys pérez-almiroty wrote: when you try to open the document all you get is the infamous ball spinning. this happens both if you open the software first or the document first

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
Bruce: please excuse my ignorance/stupidity but, how do i do that? thanks g Make sure that some other program hasn't taken over the file types in question...in other works the icons aren't 'corrupted' just different. - -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
it might be helpful to add that my friend only uses her computer with word- college professor- and email that is mostly work related. thanks again g On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:27 AM, gladys pérez-almiroty wrote: hi: again i call on you to help

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
bruce: my guess is that she is having problems opening them too, but i won't know until later tonight. if that is the case, is there anything that could be done? tia g On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The main issue here is what exactly the user means by corrupted Icons

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
hi: my guess is that they are documents, and word documents. i will know more later today. tia g What icons? Finder icons or in some other application? Corrupted in what way? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs

imac g5

2009-12-11 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
hi: my thanks to all of you who helped me with my aunt's imac. we found out it was indeed the power supply and were very lucky to find a used working one locally. the machine is up and running and my aunt is very happy. thanks again gladys -- You received this message because you are a

turns off with a slight click

2009-12-02 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
happy holidays to all! my aunt- she lives in an other town- just called me with this conundrum: her imac g 5 code name hero, 1.8 ghz, running some version of os 10.3 and maybe 2gb ram is turning itself off and when it does you can hear a faint click. i live 2 hours away and have not seen

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-14 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
well, it plays with mine, but since i upgraded i have become acquainted with the beach ball in ways i would rather forget. it is so bad that i an seriously considering going back to tiger! i have tried all i can think: permissions before and after installation, disk warrior before

Re: no sound on imac g5

2009-03-23 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Brian Troisi wrote: On Mar 23, 2009, at 12:46 AM, almir...@prtc.net wrote: hi: i am setting an imac g5 for a friend. i did a firewire target disk data migration from an imac g4. now the g5 has no output sound. instead of internal speakers, the only option