Thus spoke Lawrence Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>1/13/05 > >Despite the GUI (and some other funkiness), MacOSX is Unix underneath, >and sometimes these problems are easier to fix when you think in Unix >rather than Mac. > >So, if you have a second account with administrative privileges, log >into it. If you don't, create one and log into it. Get a Terminal up >(Applications/Utilities/Terminal). > >Say your username is fubar: substitute fubar with your real user >name. At the prompt type each of these lines separately, pressing >Return at the end: > > sudo su - fubar > mv -i Library oldLibrary > exit > exit > >The -i option to mv is to make sure it will ask you before doing >anything destructively. > >Next, log out of the administrative account, and log back into >yours. The system will recreate a nice fresh Library directory for >you. If that fixes your problem, then you can move things from your >oldLibrary directory into the freshly created Library directory as >needed. Or, just live with the new one. > >If it does not fix the problem, and you want to go back to the way >things were, log out and log in as that other user again, and type >in the Terminal: > > sudo su - fubar > mv -i Library freshLibrary > mv -i oldLibrary Library > exit > exit > >You can delete the freshLibrary directory later if you wish. > >Larry This worked!!!!!! I want to thank everyone who took the time to help. I hope one day I can return the favor..........
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