Anne: I agree with David. I could not see a comfortable way to get out of OS 9 until OS 10.3 Panther came along. Also, it would not hurt to run his Disk Utility. Beyond that, can someone here say whether OS 10.1 has a Repair Disk Permissions function??? Al Poulin Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, proactive self-defense is for the rest of us. On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:22 AM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote: > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:56:30 -0800 > From: Crandon David <tabdave at comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [G4] Apple Hardware Test on Friend's Computer? > To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." > <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Message-ID: <F6830F1A-3124-407C-A843-773E7E21EF3B at comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Geez, he's running 10.1? That was barely usable, barely out of beta. > He needs to upgrade. > > Dave > > > On Feb 26, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > >> Hi - >> >> I have another dinosaur buddy running OS 10.1 on an iMac. Guess I >> shouldn't rush over there with all my disks because he should use >> the ones that came with the iMac, right? He has disappearing files >> and I'm thinking it's directory corruption. (Or inability to use >> Sherlock) >>