[Ti] "Check Pref Files." (was: iChat and 10.3.3)

[Sambouka]

Was reading the reviews of System Optimizer X. Most of the reviews were 
bad. Stating that it crashes the OS amongst the issues.

I had a previous experience like that with Norton Disk Utility. I lost 
everything on my HD(50 GB worth of Software & Data). Unfortunately, I 
learned my lesson the hard way and didn't have a back up at the time.

I would rather keep things the way they are, better safe than sorry.
-- 
OS 10.3.3
Tibook G4 867 MHz,
1GB RAM, 32MB Video,
60GB HD, 250GB External HD
30GB iPod
iChat: Sambouka
http://homepage.mac.com/sambouka

On Mar 22, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> At 11:48 -0500 21/3/04, John Griffin wrote:
>> Dr. Trevor J. Hutley typed this message on 3/19/04 2:20 PM:
>>
>>>
>>>  Is this another update needed or a stability issue ?
>>>
>>>  Now that I have installed 10.3.3, I am unable to launch iChat (no
>>>  Version shown, dated 12 August 2003) anymore.  After one bounce in
>>>  the Dock, I get the Crash Report, the contents of which are 
>>> appended.
>>>
>>>  It seems to be looking for someone....!
>>>
>>>  I have made no known changes to iChat for several weeks.
>>>
>>>  How is iChat for everyone else who made the upgrade ?
>>
>> This may or may not be relevant, but I just downloaded a utility 
>> called
>> "Check Pref Files." It goes through user and system preferences and 
>> spots
>> any that are corrupt and gives the option of trashing them.
>>
>> With any applications that refuse to launch, I always suspect the 
>> Preference
>> files for that particular program and start searching them out. With 
>> this
>> new utility the whole job is made so much easier. On its first run it
>> spotted 5 Prefs files on my disk that were garbage.
>>
> John - I had also downloaded that utility and everything checked out 
> fine.
>
> Now that I have run the Combo 10.3.3 update, installed QT6.5, iChat 
> 2.1beta, repaired the permissions, run Systsem Optimizer X, Cocktail, 
> and rebooted several times, everything seems to be fine.
>
> My only remaining issue is in Eudora 6.1b4, where I see the spinning 
> beach ball quite often during just typing text.  That is probably a 
> beta issue.
>
> Otherwise I am now in good shape.
>
> regards, Trevor
>
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