Hello All, With Classic shutdown, Open the OS 9 System Folder and delete the three files, Classic, Classic Support and Classic Support UI just inside the System Folder. Try and start Classic now and when it says it needs to update the Classic Components let it. See if this solves the problem. ------------- Geoff WALLACE Melbourne Victoria Australia Mobile 0412 056 033 Sent on a G5 Power Macintosh using Entourage version 11.1.0 "Buy a Mac and be thought a fool or buy a Windows box and remove all doubt." On 23/11/04 4:37 AM, "Brian Pearce" <bpearce at cloud9.net> wrote: >> Does anyone know what this means, when I try to start a classic >> program on >> OS 10.3.6 I get a error message. There is a problem with updating the >> Classic specific files; Classic was unable to update it's files in >> "system >> folder" on "iBook HD" > > Have you tried running one of the utilities to clear out logs, scratch > files and so forth? How big is your hard disk? I have a problem similar > to this that happens every once in a blue moon, and it seems to be that > the OS has written so much virtual memory to the disk that there's just > no room for anything else. Restarting and running the appropriate > utility clears out those files, and everything works again. > > BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net > <http://www.redjacketpress.com> > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook