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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 361521">Had another thought...If you haven't renamed your home directory, try re-applying the 10.4.9 Combo update manually (you'll find the download section on the Apple website, in the Support section. Repair disk permissions using Apple's Disk Utility just in case the first update messed up the permissions (though I doubt it...) and see where that takes you.If it doesn't fix anything, you might have to open the apps that have lost the links to the folders and, making sure they are in their right place, re-assign the path to them.Another idea would be to create a new user account, import your folders, settings, and see if this new account works any better than the old one. If it does, it means there is software in your old account that is messing up something in it. If the new account isn't any better it does indeed mean that the update might have gone wrong somehow, somewhere, and did something to the system. It can happen, a momentary glitch in the internet download, an app still running on your Mac, etc. But if this is the case, re-applying the Combo Update ought to fix it, IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 361521"] Had another thought... If you haven't renamed your home directory, try re-applying the 10.4.9 Combo update manually (you'll find the download section on the Apple website, in the [I]Support[/I] section. Repair disk permissions using Apple's Disk Utility just in case the first update messed up the permissions (though I doubt it...) and see where that takes you. If it doesn't fix anything, you might have to open the apps that have lost the links to the folders and, making sure they are in their right place, re-assign the path to them. Another idea would be to create a new user account, import your folders, settings, and see if this new account works any better than the old one. If it does, it means there is software in your old account that is messing up something in it. If the new account isn't any better it does indeed mean that the update might have gone wrong somehow, somewhere, and did something to the system. It can happen, a momentary glitch in the internet download, an app still running on your Mac, etc. But if this is the case, re-applying the Combo Update ought to fix it, IMO. [/QUOTE]

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