Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:27 AM, gladys pérez-almiroty wrote: hi: again i call on you to help me help a friend. she called and told me that she has a problem with some corrupted icons. i will go there tonight and see if i can determine if it is just the icons or the document. any ideas or help?

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
Bruce: please excuse my ignorance/stupidity but, how do i do that? thanks g Make sure that some other program hasn't taken over the file types in question...in other works the icons aren't 'corrupted' just different. - -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
it might be helpful to add that my friend only uses her computer with word- college professor- and email that is mostly work related. thanks again g On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:27 AM, gladys pérez-almiroty wrote: hi: again i call on you to help

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:01 AM, gladys pérez-almiroty wrote: Bruce: please excuse my ignorance/stupidity but, how do i do that? thanks Right-click (or control-click) on one of the icons in question, and select 'get info'. There is a section in there that says 'Open With' which will show

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread Clark Martin
gladys pérez-almiroty wrote: hi: again i call on you to help me help a friend. she called and told me that she has a problem with some corrupted icons. i will go there tonight and see if i can determine if it is just the icons or the document. any ideas or help? has anybody solved this?

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
bruce: my guess is that she is having problems opening them too, but i won't know until later tonight. if that is the case, is there anything that could be done? tia g On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The main issue here is what exactly the user means by corrupted Icons

Re: imac g5 corrupted icons

2010-01-12 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
hi: my guess is that they are documents, and word documents. i will know more later today. tia g What icons? Finder icons or in some other application? Corrupted in what way? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs