> I just embarked on a 5 hour journey. I downloaded and installed iChat > AV beta on my 7500/G4 and upon the initial restart I had my first ever > kernel panic very early in the startup process (in verbose mode). I ran > Norton and it found some bad nodes, but on restart it still had panic. > I reran Norton & Techtool Pro and had no problems. I tried again with > the XPF throttled down, and then reinstalling bootx & extensions. > Finally I booted OS 9.2 and manually extracted all the iChat files, but > that didn't help. Luckily I had 10.2.6 on an external drive to boot > into, and then downloaded the 10.2.6 standalone (non-combo) upgrade and > reinstalled it upon the panic drive. I'd never installed an update to a > non-boot drive, and the optimization process took very long. Luckily it > booted after the reinstallation (my next attempt would have been the > combo reinstall if I'd still had panic.) What a nightmare. It may have > been coincidence with the iChat AV beta? In 9.2 some of the iChat files > were invisible, and I'm not certain how to trash them? When I dragged > them to the trash, it said it couldn't move them because they were in > invisible folders. I highlighted the icon, and hit "move to trash" but > got the same message. One of the invisible files was a copy of the > entire iChat application - 3.6mb. I'd sure like to ditch that for now, > and purge the system of all the iChat before any attempted > reinstallation. If anyone can tell me how to delete invisible files > that'd be nice. Thanks! Kris Tilford >
You need to open the invisible files in ResEdit and change the visibility flag, close and save. You can then delete them normally. There are also shareware apps designed to do this more easily eg Ghost Hunter(www.monkeybreadsoftware.com) Andy -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.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]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
