[X Newbies] Disk Utility

[David Crandon]

Repair Permissions should be run from the boot disk with the latest 
version updates.

David Crandon


On Jan 17, 2004, at 4:19 PM, J wrote:

>
> On Saturday, January 17, 2004, at 07:12  PM, Michael Winter wrote:
>
>> It sounds like the problem is that Appleworks isn't able to open the 
>> file? If you can't start Appleworks, do a File->Open and open the 
>> file that way, I'd say there is a problem with the file in question. 
>> One other technique that may be of help is if you hold down the 
>> command and option keys while you drag the file over the Appleworks 
>> icon in the dock, it will "force" Appleworks to try and open it. That 
>> technique works to "force" any application to try to open any file, 
>> but the results can anything from no response, to a polite error 
>> message to garbage.
>
> We have tried every way to do this........this is the problem. I am 
> sending him these files from the exact same OS and app. This is the 
> mystery but worse is the disk not having DU on it.
>
> I hope he has his disks........
>
> I have some disks but they are the stock 10.2, not updated to 10.2.8 
> and not sure if that would be ok to run permissions with that... what 
> say?
>
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