Thanks Bruce Im at wiork right now away from my Mac I'll try this when I get home again someday. I don't think the problem is the mouse, but what the heck I have a few extras lying around I'll try another one. Here's somethi ng else Ive noticed... Things don't Save. I typed up something into Stickies and when I looked for it it wasn't there. That's after Restarting. Buut nothi ng is saving. Under the Apple menu, under Recent Items...it's all the same stuff, no matter what programs I open and run, after Restart the computer only shows whatever was there on Monday.
Weird. I'll try the other stuff when I get home and let you know what happens -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> To: imaclist <imaclist@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, May 17, 2016 11:44 am Subject: Re: Help On May 17, 2016, at 6:35 AM, davidw1235 via iMac Group <imaclist@googlegroups.com> wrote: I have an imac G5, Powermac8,2 running Leopard. Recently it's been acting weird. I am unable to move any folders on the desktop, I can open folders, and launch Applications, but I can't drag and drop anything. The Desktop picture/background no longer chganges upon restart, before it changed each time it started up. the Desktop always starts up with the same window open no matter what. and Yes, I have closed it and restarted. Some Applications, like AOL won't start upi. Persistence helps but not always. Stupid zeroth step: try a different mouse. A mouse with a flaky left button will produce the “I can start things but not drag and drop” symptoms. In fact I had that very experience just last week. Suddenly the Finder became weirdly unresponsive…the trackball pointer moved around, right-click worked, but I couldn’t click on anything. It was particularly annoying because the little microswitch was making the same noise and same ‘click’ feel, usually they’re clearly mushy or no longer ‘click’ when pressed. Replacing my trackball fixed it. Any three button USB mouse will work properly in OS X. Can you drag folders around in finder Windows? Ie: is it only your Desktop folder that’s affected? First step: Start in safe mode. Shut the Mac down, and hold down the Shift key while starting up. Keep holding it until the progress bar appears. This deletes some program caches and such that may cause this behavior. Once it starts up and comes to the login prompt, you can restart immediately in normal mode. Second step : Delete Finder and Desktop preferences. Go to your Library folder (in finder Go > Library), find the Preferences folder and find the files com.apple.desktop.plist and com.apple.finder.plist move them to the trash and restart. if it persists still, boot from your leopard installer DVD and select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu and check your hard drive. If the drive checks out ok, and all of the above have not fixed it, reboot to your computer, go into System Preferences and create a new Administrative user account. Log off and back in as the new user and see if you still have the problems. If you do, this is something related to the system and re-installing OS X should fix it. If you don’t have the problems, then the issue is something with your regular user account. Re-installing OSX doesn’t fix this; but diagnosing the issue will taske some detective work. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.