[Ti] Finder Icons Won't Move X 10.2

[Henry Kalir]

Daniel,

My daughter's Ti 800 running 10.2.8 developed a similar problem where 
she was unable to open any Word files. A message "you do not have 
administrator privileges", or something like that, would appear each 
time. BIG problem for a college girl. I took the machine with me, tried 
all the known tricks, scanned (Virex) for viruses, used TechTool Pro...nada!

I then tried upgrading to Panther without a clean install...still no go.

Had to do a CLEAN INSTALL (but did save her files) of Panther, update it 
to 10.3.9, reinstall MS Word and only then did everything work properly.

Best,

Henry

Daniel H Kegan wrote:

>> A Mac-using colleague developed a bug in their
>> 10.2. (.1 or .2 ) system this week--
>> the Finder icons won't be moved,
>> although mouse/courser can select them.
>>
>> One web suggestion I found was to delete the
>> /library/caches/com.apple.dock.iconcache<username>
>>
>> but that didn't work.
>>
>> Nor did logging out main user and logging in as
>> secondary user set up for when main user is corrupted.
>> Not View> View Options> Grid.
>>
>> [How delete without working moving icons, pondered--
>> select, File>Move To Trash, restart].
>>
>> Fix permissions not a magic cure.
>> Any knowledged-based or otherwise reasonable guesses,
>> short of Archive & Install, and if that fails, clean install.
>>
>> May miss digest response, thus would appreciate also
>> direct response to <daniel at keganlaw.com> . TIA
>>
>>
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