On 04/01/2006, at 5:01 PM, McCallum Malcolm wrote:
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
I would not worry about DiskWarrior and go with Apples Disk Utility
and verify disk. Boot machine with start-up disk and utilise from
their to make sure it is actually fixing root, also this is where
DiskWarrior should be working with root partition.
Also check how much free space is on root partition i.e. Macintosh HD
or whatever the partition is now known as.
Reference sources with Apples Discussion boards another possible source.
http://www.thexlab.com
http://www.macosxhints.com
Happy Hunting.
Cheers!
`Rob...
