[G4] G4-mail/keyboard symptoms

[Snow White]

Lisa

You can just save your user identity on the external.

Harddrive / Users / YourIdentity

Saving your identity will save all your data (of that user) and it can  
be transfered to your fresh install.

After you do your fresh install make sure you repair permissions  and  
repair them every couple months.  This will head off many small  
problems that occur over time.  There is also a daily/weekly/monthly  
house-clean your computer will do if you leave it on and awake over  
night.  You can force it to do the housekeeping in terminal.

jj



On 6-Mar-06, at 10:01 PM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com  
wrote:

> G4-mail/keyboard symptoms
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> My symptoms have become even worse since first posting:
>  I can no longer fully close out of mail, or open a window in it,  
> (unless I am in a applcation that opens itas default).
>  Of course, I can go directly to my mail server via browser, but I  
> have many limitations with this method.  Not the least of which is  
> that I just don't like the way it looks!
>
> If I can't fully close mail, and it is default for other apps  
> (ie-iPhoto), then if it auto launches would I possibly be corrupting  
> other applications?
>
> I will be having a clean sweep & re-install wed. with NO mail data  
> migrated at all.
> Hopefully, this will alleviate the issue.  I am concerned about the  
> existing data backed up on external HD: should I just transfer back  
> the existing bk-up data?  should I wipe the external HD clean too and  
> then back up only whats Absolutely necessary?