Q
QuinnEskimo
Guest
Ok, so I know I've been starting a lot of threads lately trying to figure my deal out. I've been trying all sorts of things...
- I did every procedure laid out in the sticky thread "Basic OS Troubleshooting"
- I've been repairing permissions daily now (even as "root")
Some of these prcedures seem to work temporarily, some not at all. but things keep coming back around to *something* being "weird". I can't explain it to you in any sort of technical terms, but I can tell you a few random errors and issues that have been happening.
- un provoked stalling (spinny ball) for 5,10,30 seconds at a time. This seems to mainly happen when I have both Safari 2.0.2 (yes i've cleared my caches) open while also running Adobe apps (photoshop, illustrator, design stuff...). One action that seems to provoke this is trying to fill in a form - be it in the url box, or logging in on a website. But this also happens in Adobe Apps.
- just recently I couldn't make a new folder on the desktop, I'd get an error message
- not being able to save a file to documents folder from an adobe app. got error message (disk error)
- other global and system errors.
- having to force-quit programs regularly.
Basically I'd like some help in a total shure-fire re-vaamping of the system (shure-fire - ha ha). I believe what I'm asking about is an "Archive & Install", yes?
I've got a 60gig external hard drive and 20gig (ipod) external hard drive to work with.
I can get any program I need to do this.
Can anyone walk me through something to just clear all my sh*t out and start fresh and new? (not too fresh... i don't want to loose all my apps and work!!)
I would really,really,really,really appreciate any help and THANK everyone who's helped me so far:
-MacsWork
-rman
You guys rock!!! Thanks agian for all your help
(did anyone get this far???)
- I did every procedure laid out in the sticky thread "Basic OS Troubleshooting"
- I've been repairing permissions daily now (even as "root")
Some of these prcedures seem to work temporarily, some not at all. but things keep coming back around to *something* being "weird". I can't explain it to you in any sort of technical terms, but I can tell you a few random errors and issues that have been happening.
- un provoked stalling (spinny ball) for 5,10,30 seconds at a time. This seems to mainly happen when I have both Safari 2.0.2 (yes i've cleared my caches) open while also running Adobe apps (photoshop, illustrator, design stuff...). One action that seems to provoke this is trying to fill in a form - be it in the url box, or logging in on a website. But this also happens in Adobe Apps.
- just recently I couldn't make a new folder on the desktop, I'd get an error message
- not being able to save a file to documents folder from an adobe app. got error message (disk error)
- other global and system errors.
- having to force-quit programs regularly.
Basically I'd like some help in a total shure-fire re-vaamping of the system (shure-fire - ha ha). I believe what I'm asking about is an "Archive & Install", yes?
I've got a 60gig external hard drive and 20gig (ipod) external hard drive to work with.
I can get any program I need to do this.
Can anyone walk me through something to just clear all my sh*t out and start fresh and new? (not too fresh... i don't want to loose all my apps and work!!)
I would really,really,really,really appreciate any help and THANK everyone who's helped me so far:
-MacsWork
-rman
You guys rock!!! Thanks agian for all your help
(did anyone get this far???)