Hi!
I'm a counselor in a psychosocial club that offers help with socialization skills to people who have ongoing emotional difficulties. We have a Powerbase 180 from Power Computing that's running Mac OS 7.6.1 Release 3.1. The club has had the machine since the last century. None of the counselors, including myself, uses Macs. The problem is this. A couple of years ago, the Mac started propagating files on the desktop. At that time, I tried to discover a solution for the problem in the documentation. None of my solutions worked, and so I moved our database operations over to a PC clone running Windows. As for the Mac, one of the desktops didn't have the problem, and as luck would have, that desktop contained the member's game directory, and so the Mac became the club's default game computer. Recently, however, the propagation of files started again, making play on the computer impossible. I've tried Praming the system, and reinstalling the OS. Nothing worked. I'd like to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS, but I can't seem to find directions in the documentation for this rather simple procedure. Better still, if you could tell me how to stop the propagation, I might not have to format. That way, I could save some of the members' favorite games. As I said, the problem didn't occur on the member's desktop. It only occurred in the staff directory, and in the administrative directory, run by me, especially when I went into the Mac's central file system. (Yeah, I know. The idea of me as a Mac administrator is a little funny) Any help that you could give me would be greatly appreciated by the Club, by me, and especially by the Mac. Right now the Mac is scheduled for the trash heap unless I can get it fixed. Thanks, Dave > -- > Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
