Malcolm I would go with Disk Utility again and do a "Verify Disk". If this reports any problems then follow the instructions at the top of the Disk Utility First Aid tab - boot from your OS X 10.4 CD/DVD and choose Disk Utility from the Utilities (?) menu. Then you can repair the disk if it is within Disk Utility's power to do so. This utility from Apple has been getting better and better - I think it was Martin who was extolling its virtues a few days ago.
If nothing else this might clean things up enough for DW to run properly. Hope this helps Cheers Greg > From: McCallum Malcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:01:04 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Subject: Disk Warrior 3.0.3 Need Help! > > My wife has an iMac 1GHz PowerPC G4 256 MB DDR SDRAM Running OS > 10.4.3 This has been running well until New Years Eve we were > invaded by Teenagers,one of which simply wanted to "lookup her > email". :-( On New Years Day the iMac seem to be running rather > slowly so I thought I would run 'Disk Warrior' 3.0.3. All goes well > until one gets to stage 5 'Locating directory data' ,rebuilding > directory and the indicator bar is about 55% across the screen and > then it stops and nothing more happens. The disk can be heard going > and the scroll bar 'shakes' but does not progress. It then complains > that it is going slowly because of shortage of Ram (!) and it can > be left for hours and nothing more happens. > > I have repaired permissions and done fsck -fy and prayed to Allah but > no Joy. > > The iMac seems to perform OK and is maybe a little quicker since I > have 'doctored it' but I do not like the fact that I cannot run Disk > Warrior. > > Disk Warrior runs normally on my iBook. > > Anyone any suggestions please > Mac > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
