this was the very first step taken, way back. Thanks On May 24, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Jane wrote: > How about just resetting the permissions in the GET INFO box? > > On May 24, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Chris Morland wrote: > >> Dear people- still finding locks on my files and now some files >> cannot be save back to the original folder- the button is dimmed. >> Have tried Disk Utility, DW, Keychain, First Aid and a number of >> other utilities. There doesn't seem to be a pattern, but random. Do >> you think maybe a virus? Waiting to upgrade to Tiger for this reason. >> i'm very grateful for all the help you given, Should i go ahead and >> upgrade? Thanks. -chris >> G4 Dual 450 >> 3 Internal 2 External drives >> 10.3.9 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> X-Newbies mailing list >> X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984