I foresee a Time Machine restore in your near future. -----Original message----- From: richardsan [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:21:22 -0800 To: StrataList [email protected] Subject: [Stratalist-ot] Re: misbehaving snowkitty
> won't boot from the lion disk now...harumph... > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, richardsan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > not sure what started this, but after viewing a PDF attachment from some > > shipper[i did check online to see if it was a real company] the 2 page doc > > was blank on page 1 and had a ghostly "PDF" icon on page two...tried saving > > it and got the same view from preview.app. > > crinkly aluminium hat off/ > > the latest security update 'forced' a reboot and the computer started up > > in the SL land, previously from lion. so after a couple days, that > > environment turned in to the sluggish, tired old thing that it is already > > and i wanted to get back to 10.6.x ...so i get to the cosmos splash screen, > > then a blank screen, then the outer space scene time and again...never > > getting to the desktop. so i did the single user check disk, did the pram > > reset...no solution. i've started dragging things off that partition to > > erase, and came to a locked folder: system=>library=>user > > templates...unlock it and it contains the foreign languages templates...is > > this folder supposed to be locked to everyone except the system? i'm > > guessing it's something there at the first initiating startup for all > > users, and after selecting the language preferences this is locked up...? > > also there is, in the get info pallet, a user called "wheel"...with a few > > checks it only has read access to some folders...? > > i'm going to wipe this partition and re install lion on it. > > i wonder why SL "is not the OS i'm looking for"? memory goblin.... > > > > machine is the 2.8 GHz. i7 27" iMac w/4gigs ram. > > > > -- > > knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an > > oxymoron. > > > > > > -- > knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an > oxymoron. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > > Francis Drouillard, PE Novato, CA 94945 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
