On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Charles Davis wrote:
Beige MT, 400Mc G4, 768M, USB ports, Track Ball
OSX.2.8, all current security updates.
OSx starts, loads 'toolbar' (thats how I can get this far)
Toolbar has icons for "Finder", "Internet Connect", "Safari",
"Mail", & others.
WHAT others? This is critical! If you can get to terminal, you're
golden, you can run anything.
The internet Connect & Mail items let me get here. I will be able
to read responses.
Symptoms - Click on Finder Icon, brings up a message box "Finder
Not Running".
Bringing up anything else, also brings up the 'tool bar'.
What do you mean the 'Tool Bar'? The Dock? The thing at the bottom of
your screen with the icons? Unfortunately, terminal isn't one of the
default apps.
Problem: No Finder, no access to directories, can't back things up
to be able to safely "Nuke & pave".
Now, I can bring up OSX on another HD, but I need to know what
files to look for and where they are supposed to be, to make a
repair effort.
Create a new admin user if you can get System Preferences going, and
see if the issue persists. If it doesn't, it's a user prefs or
startup item issue.
For example: if you can get to terminal enter the following:
/Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences
And hit return, this will start the System Preferences folder. (the
back slashes are critical, they tell the OS that the space is part of
the file path, not a part of the command)
You can do this for ANY application:
/Applications/<application name>.app/Contents/MacOS/<application name>
Will run the program.
Heck try:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Safari will also let you open Finder windows, but I don't know if
that requires Finder to be functioning:
file://<directory path>/ will open a finder window to the path.
If Finder starts all right, then something's blcoking the startup
sequence before it gets to Finder, look in /Library/StartupItems or /
Users/<user>/Library/StartupItems to find things to remove.
If not it's a systemic issue.
If it's a user issue go to /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences and
delete com.apple.finder.plist.
If it's a systemic issue, do an Archive&Reinstall followed by the
10.2.8 upgrade.
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Bruce Johnson
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