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wilton higgins - Feb 19, 2006 - 11:28 am
Tried to Froce Quit a application and lost data from address book ,mail, safari bookmarks,ical and most applications went
back to their default setting. I also find that the computer is not working at its optimum speed.
Tried to repair permission with no success.
using mac G4 flat panel, panther 10.3.9, 768 mb.
mac knowledge medium.
p.s. I didn't lose my itune music data or iphoto, so i backed them up on disc.
back to their default setting. I also find that the computer is not working at its optimum speed.
Tried to repair permission with no success.
using mac G4 flat panel, panther 10.3.9, 768 mb.
mac knowledge medium.
p.s. I didn't lose my itune music data or iphoto, so i backed them up on disc.
philippe99 - Feb 19, 2006 - 1:22 pm
Wilton, welcome to macosx.com
It is virtually impossible -using Unix system for more than 10 years- that a ForceQuit of an application has destroyed settings of other ones. That's the soul of Unix system: all applications are running in a protected area of the memory: you can shoot one, the other ones will never know that a process has been killed.
Exceptions: force quit repair tools (Onyx, Cocktail, ..) or even DiskUtility while repairing permissions can -I say 'can'- lead to problems...but certainly not, for instance as you said, loosing ADB data.
No theres is another reason for this apparent 'reset' of your environment....
In a Finder window, could you check the name of your Home folder, you know the little Home icon: has it changed ?
Despite the "reset" thing as you stated, can you surf, ... ?
Do you have Microsoft Office applications (Word, Execell, ..); if yes, can you use them as before ?
Which application was you killing ?
Regards
Philippe
It is virtually impossible -using Unix system for more than 10 years- that a ForceQuit of an application has destroyed settings of other ones. That's the soul of Unix system: all applications are running in a protected area of the memory: you can shoot one, the other ones will never know that a process has been killed.
Exceptions: force quit repair tools (Onyx, Cocktail, ..) or even DiskUtility while repairing permissions can -I say 'can'- lead to problems...but certainly not, for instance as you said, loosing ADB data.
No theres is another reason for this apparent 'reset' of your environment....
In a Finder window, could you check the name of your Home folder, you know the little Home icon: has it changed ?
Despite the "reset" thing as you stated, can you surf, ... ?
Do you have Microsoft Office applications (Word, Execell, ..); if yes, can you use them as before ?
Which application was you killing ?
Regards
Philippe
wilton higgins - Feb 20, 2006 - 8:38 am
Hi Phillippe.
My home folder name is the same, but the applications that i had organized
in the find window has changed.
I can still surf the net and i got connected with mail, thanks to my internet service provider.
Microsoft applications seems to work.
I can't remember which application i was trying to kill.
Before i had this problem. I updated my itunes to 6.0.2 and after tried to repair permission, using DiskUtillity which froze. I canceled the app. and tried onyx and it also froze. I went to apple discussion forum to see if othe users had the same problem. It turned out that the 6.0.2 update had a bug, and the
solution was to remove some of the older Itunes.Pkg, from the receipts folder. The repair permission did not freeze up after.
Thanks
Wilton Higgins
My home folder name is the same, but the applications that i had organized
in the find window has changed.
I can still surf the net and i got connected with mail, thanks to my internet service provider.
Microsoft applications seems to work.
I can't remember which application i was trying to kill.
Before i had this problem. I updated my itunes to 6.0.2 and after tried to repair permission, using DiskUtillity which froze. I canceled the app. and tried onyx and it also froze. I went to apple discussion forum to see if othe users had the same problem. It turned out that the 6.0.2 update had a bug, and the
solution was to remove some of the older Itunes.Pkg, from the receipts folder. The repair permission did not freeze up after.
Thanks
Wilton Higgins
philippe99 - Feb 20, 2006 - 9:40 am
I would try to boot on the OS Install disc #1 and repair disk and permissions from this disk
See procedures here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
Regards
Philippe
See procedures here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
Regards
Philippe
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