[G4] I need help with OSX

[John Baltutis]

On 07/12/06,  SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote:
>
> Ok, well I pulled out my 10.3 install disk and booted up with that and ran
> Disk Utility. Disk repair said everything was ok. I checked permissions and a
> ton of errors were found, but it came to a place where no more errors were
> being
> listed and the progress bar was only a third of the way across but it was
> still looking like a spinning barber pole on the side. (looking active) I let
> it
> run for a while and clicked on stop checking, and then the confirm stop
> checking, but the progress bar never stops. I finally do a force quit and
> restart
> disk utility, and just tell it to repair permissions. It repairs them all
> until
> it gets to the same place on the progress bar, and then pops up a warning box
> that says:
>
> Disk Utility Internal Error
> Disk Utility has lost its connection with the Disk Management Tool and cannot
> continue. Please quit and relaunch Disk Utility.
>
> Where do I go from here?

<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=691147&#691147>. Once, you
solve that problem, take a look at <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html>,
especially the ones dealing with backing up (Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!,
and SilverKeeper are good alternatives to Retrospect, which uses a proprietary
backup scheme) and software updates.