[G4] Jaguar - many apps fail to start - unexpected quit

[Todd Flashner]

I may do that clean install yet, but dragster did the trick for now.

Gracias.

Todd

> In System Preferences, it should be in the System row of Prefs. In my setup,
> it's the first icon in the row, next to Classic. But if you've got 6 icons
> for keyboard, maybe you right about the Clean Install idea. Sounds like your
> system has problems.
> 
> You might want to backup all your data files and other needful things, and
> start from scratch with a new install. Maybe start with a fresh
> initialization of your boot drive.
> 
> It's good to do that from time to time anyway.
> 
> 
> Brian Conner
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Power Macintosh G4 List [mailto:G4 at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On
> Behalf Of Todd Flashner
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 9:40 PM
> To: Power Macintosh G4 List
> Subject: Re: [G4] Jaguar - many apps fail to start - unexpected quit
> 
> 
> on 4/21/03 11:32 AM, Brian Conner wrote:
> 
>> First thing to try when things like this start happening is to create
>> a new user with administrative privileges (System Preferences >
>> Accounts), log out of your original user, and log in as the new user.
> 
> Sorry, I'm trying to folow along here as my system is buggy too. In fact, my
> preferences are buggy. I've lost acess to Classic and I've got 6 icons for
> Keyboard.
> 
> Anyway, perhaps that is where my problems lay. When I go preferences> I
> don't have an option for accounts, just My Account. Clicking My Acoount
> doesn't give me the option to creat new users. Am I missing an Accounts
> icon? Should I just proceed to stage 2: drag thing? Clean install?
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd
> 
> 
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