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nikos - Jan 21, 2006 - 11:32 am
I'm using a 3 month old PowerBook with OS 10.4.4
A main folder (named "File Cabinet") which I created to hold most of my files (also in tiers of folders) started opening (into a window) every time I boot. I don't like that! I want only the desktop there when I've booted . . . as before.
I've searched and searched for what's causing this. I've been to Apple/Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. It is listed in the Login Items, but it is checked to "hide". I don't know where to go to stop this.
One thing which MIGHT be related: I installed DiskWarrior and set it to check things at the time I boot. It requests my login password, then DiskWarrior disappears from the desktop. I decided to stop that because I don't need to be running it that often. I went to Apple/Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. DiskWarrior is in the list, so I checked "hide", but it STILL opens and askes for my password everytime I boot.
I went into DiskWarrior/Hardware/Automatic Diaognostics and nothing is checked there (is not turned on). So, I don't see anywhere to stopping its opening with every boot-up there, either. Maybe these are related. I just don't know.
Can anyone help me, please. I will be so grateful!
~ Richard
A main folder (named "File Cabinet") which I created to hold most of my files (also in tiers of folders) started opening (into a window) every time I boot. I don't like that! I want only the desktop there when I've booted . . . as before.
I've searched and searched for what's causing this. I've been to Apple/Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. It is listed in the Login Items, but it is checked to "hide". I don't know where to go to stop this.
One thing which MIGHT be related: I installed DiskWarrior and set it to check things at the time I boot. It requests my login password, then DiskWarrior disappears from the desktop. I decided to stop that because I don't need to be running it that often. I went to Apple/Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. DiskWarrior is in the list, so I checked "hide", but it STILL opens and askes for my password everytime I boot.
I went into DiskWarrior/Hardware/Automatic Diaognostics and nothing is checked there (is not turned on). So, I don't see anywhere to stopping its opening with every boot-up there, either. Maybe these are related. I just don't know.
Can anyone help me, please. I will be so grateful!
~ Richard
earthsaver - Jan 21, 2006 - 11:57 am
Regarding File Cabinet, is the folder open when you shutdown your computer? If so, you'll notice that the Finder reopens any folder(s)/window(s) that were open when the system was last safely shutdown. (Also, why do you shutdown your computer?, instead of just putting it to sleep.)
As for DiskWarrior, the Hide checkbox means the system will hide the application when opening it, not that it will stop opening it on login. To do that, you need to remove DW from the list. Since DW always asks for a password when it opens, it will continue to do so whether you've told it to be hidden or not.
Finally, setting DW to run diagnostics periodically doesn't require the application to be in Login Items. As you'll see, it has a helper app, DiskWarriorStarter, that runs in the background and checks your hard disk as often as you've told it to in DW.
As for DiskWarrior, the Hide checkbox means the system will hide the application when opening it, not that it will stop opening it on login. To do that, you need to remove DW from the list. Since DW always asks for a password when it opens, it will continue to do so whether you've told it to be hidden or not.
Finally, setting DW to run diagnostics periodically doesn't require the application to be in Login Items. As you'll see, it has a helper app, DiskWarriorStarter, that runs in the background and checks your hard disk as often as you've told it to in DW.
nikos - Jan 22, 2006 - 1:00 am
Thank you for explaining that the Hide checkbox simply means it will hide it when opening it, rather than stop opening it on login. That answered my question! Once I removed DiskWarrior and the "File Cabinet" folder, I no longer have the problem. Thanks so much!
PLEASE follow-up on an issue you raised . . . that of my shutting off my PowerBook, rather than putting it to sleep. I use it once per evening. Are you saying I should never shut it off? Under what circumstances would you say I should shut it down, rather than put to sleep? ~ Richard
PLEASE follow-up on an issue you raised . . . that of my shutting off my PowerBook, rather than putting it to sleep. I use it once per evening. Are you saying I should never shut it off? Under what circumstances would you say I should shut it down, rather than put to sleep? ~ Richard
earthsaver - Jan 22, 2006 - 11:31 am
Two things:
1. If you only use it once a day, I wonder why you spent extra to get a PowerBook.
2. If you only use it once a day, then perhaps shutting down is the best idea.
Sleep is a less-than-10% low power mode. By Energy Star standards, that means less than 3 watts of electricity. However, shutdown of course is closer to zero, only drawing power from the socket or battery to keep the clock ticking.
The only consideration, therefore, you might want to make is to start using a utility that will run Mac OS X's wee-morning-hour maintenance tasks that keep it running smoothly. Part of the underlying UNIX operating system, these are daily, weekly, and monthly tasks that run between around 2 am and 5 am.
If you shutdown or sleep your Mac during that time, they don't run, and Apple still hasn't integrated a mechanism to run them when next your Mac is on. Therefore, I recommend that users invest in Macaroni, a $9 utility from
http://www.atomicbird.com/
Macaroni will run those "cron" tasks when your computer is awake enough to do so and also includes additional functionality to regularly repair permissions and remove localized files, if you desire to configure them.
1. If you only use it once a day, I wonder why you spent extra to get a PowerBook.
2. If you only use it once a day, then perhaps shutting down is the best idea.
Sleep is a less-than-10% low power mode. By Energy Star standards, that means less than 3 watts of electricity. However, shutdown of course is closer to zero, only drawing power from the socket or battery to keep the clock ticking.
The only consideration, therefore, you might want to make is to start using a utility that will run Mac OS X's wee-morning-hour maintenance tasks that keep it running smoothly. Part of the underlying UNIX operating system, these are daily, weekly, and monthly tasks that run between around 2 am and 5 am.
If you shutdown or sleep your Mac during that time, they don't run, and Apple still hasn't integrated a mechanism to run them when next your Mac is on. Therefore, I recommend that users invest in Macaroni, a $9 utility from
http://www.atomicbird.com/
Macaroni will run those "cron" tasks when your computer is awake enough to do so and also includes additional functionality to regularly repair permissions and remove localized files, if you desire to configure them.
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