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<blockquote data-quote="Smackintosh" data-source="post: 756448" data-attributes="member: 9034"><p>repairing permissions while booted from the install cd may help. look <a href="http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810" target="_blank">here</a> for instruction.</p><p></p><p>If you do not have the install cd handy. Start the computer up while holding down the cmd key + s during startup. The computer will boot to a black screen with white writing (looks like the old dos days) at the # type this (without quotation marks) "fsck -yf" hit enter and this will attempt to repair the startup permissions (this may take a bit). if there are any errors it will attempt to fix them. do this until it says there are no errors. when it gets back to the prompt type "exit" and the machine will restart.</p><p></p><p>-hope this helps</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Smackintosh, post: 756448, member: 9034"] repairing permissions while booted from the install cd may help. look [URL="http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810"]here[/URL] for instruction. If you do not have the install cd handy. Start the computer up while holding down the cmd key + s during startup. The computer will boot to a black screen with white writing (looks like the old dos days) at the # type this (without quotation marks) "fsck -yf" hit enter and this will attempt to repair the startup permissions (this may take a bit). if there are any errors it will attempt to fix them. do this until it says there are no errors. when it gets back to the prompt type "exit" and the machine will restart. -hope this helps [/QUOTE]
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