Update: No good news.
I restarted my Mac Mini from a Snow Leopard DVD then erased the Mac Mini hard disk. I installed Snow Leopard and the computer appeared to function normally. I did not load anything back onto the disk from my Time Machine disk. I then installed the latest Combo update that I downloaded yesterday and saved to an external drive. Now after restart from that combo update, I have gone back to my starting problem I.e. When the computer gets to the user login screen, my keyboard, and the mouse clicks are unresponsive. I am assuming that if I do a safe boot at this stage, then it will work properly, but that is not a long term solution, and I need to go to bed, not spend more time trying to rectify this. Sent from my iPhone On 28/09/2010, at 9:25 AM, Tim Law <t...@peoplehelp.com.au> wrote: > > Thanks Rob > > Bob has responded off list and suggested a reinstall from the latest combo. > Whilst it didn't resolve the problem it was quite special watching a download > coming through at 2.5mb per sec on cable :-) > > I have also trashed the finder prefs with no result. > > The original owner will look for the original disk but thanks for the > reassurance about the price of snow leopard. If I buy a family pack I can > upgrade all the computers. > > Tim > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 27/09/2010, at 11:08 PM, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au> wrote: > >> Tim, >> >> Not sure if anyone else has responded. One solution could be to trash your >> finder prefs file and then restart or shutdown. >> >> Look for ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist where ~ is your user >> folder. >> >> This solved similar symptoms for me. >> >> Rob >> >> On 27/09/10 3:00 PM, Tim Law wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> As per the Subject, I am having problems with the Finder menu and Dock not >>> functioning at all when booting in normal mode. >>> The system works fine in Safe Boot - holding down Shift key on start up. >>> >>> I'm running 10.6.4 in a Mac Mini 2.53Ghz with 4Gb of RAM >>> >>> The problem is that that keyboard and mouse clicks become unresponsive in >>> normal boot up mode. They work okay in Safe Boot, which indicates to me >>> they are working fine hardware wise. >>> >>> Problem arose yesterday when machine wouldn't wake from sleep. >>> >>> I went through and disabled all the startup items under the user Account, >>> ran Yasu a system repair utility. >>> >>> Taking on board the comments from a few weeks ago in the thread: >>> >>>>> Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions >>> >>> I downloaded and ran AppleJack from Single User mode by pressing Command-S >>> on startup. >>> >>> The result is unchanged. >>> >>> When I arrive at the login screen to select which user account - my main >>> one and a Test account, the mouse cursor is visible and moves around, but >>> the screen is unresponsive. >>> The same thing happens if I reset the Account Login to automatically log >>> into my main user account. The system starts up as one would expect, but >>> the keyboard and mouse clicks are unresponsive - i.e the mouse moves, but >>> there is no response to clicking. >>> >>> A forced shutdown is needed by holding in the Power button. >>> >>> In the WAMUG archive >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/msg59872.html referring to >>> "Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions" the advice from >>> Ronni was to performa a system reinstallation. >>> >>> Problem 2: >>> The original system disks are still with the original owner of the Mac >>> Mini. I "might" be able to contact him and find them, but finding him again >>> is not so easy. The alternative, I am assuming, is to go buy a new OSX 10.6 >>> disk. >>> >>> Any other options welcomed! >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Associate Professor Rob Phillips >> Educational Development Unit >> Room 4.42 Level 4 Library North Wing, Murdoch University >> r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 >> Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia >> > > > > -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
