hi
I have no idea but he first thing i would do is repair disk
permissions using the disk utility under os x.
ben
On 28 Sep 2005, at 21:32, Martin sheppard wrote:
I am experiencing a problem when loading a Classic application on
my G3 600MHz iMac running 10.3.9.
When going for my trusty Office 98 (most often PowerPoint but also
Excel and Word) while in my main administrator (= grown ups!)
account, both Classic and the app will load OK. However, a few
menu clicks later and both Classic and the app will freeze. After
force quitting from both Classic and the app and then starting
again, Classic appears to load all the extensions but then freezes
with the progress bar showing about 90%.
Bizarrely, when I try Office 98 from my kid's account on the same
machine it works with no problem. Equally oddly, I can then return
to the admin account, rebuild the desktop via System Preferences
and then get Classic and Office to repeat the same cycle.
Finally, when I load Classic with extensions off it then seems to
work happily, except it then tells me in PowerPoint that Quicktime
etc is missing. It also seems to work OK when I boot the iMac from
9.2.2. This odd behaviour only seemed to start when I upgraded
from 10.1.5 to Panther and set up the kids' account.
I'm used to chasing down extension conflicts in OS7.x and 8.x, but
doing it through OS X seems to be a slightly different ball game.
When I tried to "sort" the problem using Norton Disk Doctor I
succeeded in crashing the whole machine leaving me with something
akin to a black "screen of death" complete with Unix(?) type
prompt. Only some frantic CD booting and re-building saved the day.
Any help would be gratefully received - I can do without any more
Norton problems.
Thanks
Martin
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