MS Office and Leopard problems

[husky123]

Everything I have read says that this is an indicator that your Carbon library files are corrupt. Those are the ones that enable C++ programs to resolve correctly if I remember right. Only way I know to restore those files are to reinstall OSX, and uninstalling/reinstalling Office will have no effect as those are not Office files, but OSX files. Apparently it is a well known and widespread problem from what I see on google, and is not just a Leopard problem, but reaches all the way back to OS9, and OSX 10.1. No-one I have read has had any luck with anything other than reinstalling OSX. Good luck!

I'm just scarred to death of what to do once I do a clean install? Like how to put iPhoto library back, iTunes, Mail subfolders. It scares the living daylights out of me. I do have an external hard drive and Time Machine back-ups.

Thanks again for all the tips!

 

[harryb2448]

Back up your HDD with SuperDuper. it will copy everything. Do an erase and install, connect the external drive and transfer what you want over by dragging to the desktop.

 

[cwa107]

Back up your HDD with SuperDuper. it will copy everything. Do an erase and install, connect the external drive and transfer what you want over by dragging to the desktop.

Even easier would be to use the Migration Assistant at the end of the Leopard install to import all of your data, Applications and settings back in from your SuperDuper or Time Machine backup. It's pretty much effortless.

 

[husky123]

Thanks all. I'll try and do an erase and install this weekend! Can't wait to see if this works...fingers crossed.

 

[rc2121]

Permissions

Did you try repairing / checking permissions?
How familiar are you with Terminal?

 

[husky123]

Did you try repairing / checking permissions?
How familiar are you with Terminal?

Yes I did a repair (to which it did acknowledge a bunch) and checked permissions.

Not too awful familiar with Terminal.