[PB] My PowerBook Has A Mind Of Its Own!

[Andi]

it might be a good time for repairing permissons with a boot cd. also,
try trashing the finder preferences and launchservices cache.

best
Andy


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:13:50 -0800, Robert (Bob) P Andris
<bobandris at comcast.net> wrote:
> My 17" 1.3GHz PowerBook, running 10.3.5 has suddenly developed a mind
> of its own with respect to its two highest level windows.  I set all
> of my classic icon style windows to "Icons", "32x32" Icon size, "10
> pt Text size", "Bottom" label position, "Snap to grid", and "White"
> Background. By "classic icon style" I mean  the Finder windows
> WITHOUT the "Toolbar".
> 
> I do a normal shutdown and the later bootup.  When I open the main/or
> highest level hard disk window - it comes up in the "Toolbar" style.
> So does the next level "Applications" window.  All others, below that
> are as I previously left them.
> 
> Next I will reset those two windows to the non-Toolbar style.  Use
> the machine for quite a while and the windows always remain as I had
> just set them.  Shut'er down - repeat the bootup and those two are
> back in the Toolbar style!
> 
> Has anyone seen this?  More importantly, does anyone know what to do
> to get it back to normal?
> 
> Many Thanks,
>           Bob
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