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<blockquote data-quote="Theorist" data-source="post: 707922" data-attributes="member: 57090"><p>I need some help rather desperately from you good folk I am having some serious issues with my Macbook Pro which is really starting to annoy me, especially as I don't know Tiger or Leopard nearly as well as XP/Vista (where I can sort out the problem myself).</p><p></p><p>First of all, my problem stems back from Tiger in which my system preferences reset after I turn my Mac off. When I power on again, my dock is reset back to it's default settings (even after a Leopard upgrade today, this problem still persists). My mouse and trackpad settings reset etc.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, Firefox 3 now refuses to open.</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, in Safari I keep getting an error message in EVERY new page I navigate to saying that my keychain is corrupted or something to that effect.</p><p></p><p>Forth, my harddrive is saying that I have around 50gb free despite the fact that I know I have at least 30gb more after clearing out old documents and applications (I was sad enough to count as I deleted one thing after the other).</p><p></p><p>Lastly, now after upgrading I am getting a constant error message saying that the "installedb" file failed to open and all I can really do to get rid of the message is select "ignore".</p><p></p><p>ANY help would be appreciated as I am getting quite...anxious about the whole thing. A year running without issues and now all of this at once?</p><p></p><p>Also I am running 10.5.4 which has not corrected any of these problems.</p><p></p><p>I am currently abroad, so even though I can just do a fresh install which I am tempted to do right now despite the hour, I don't want to have to resort to that unless necessary. It also leaves me in a grey area as my Office 2008 was a single use installation and I do not know if I can afford to really lose the app by doing a complete wipe and reinstall.</p><p></p><p>My apologies if any of this seems vague (I will elaborate where necessary). It is just incredibly frustrating to have a myriad of issues all at once when I have not had a single running issue for the past year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Theorist, post: 707922, member: 57090"] I need some help rather desperately from you good folk I am having some serious issues with my Macbook Pro which is really starting to annoy me, especially as I don't know Tiger or Leopard nearly as well as XP/Vista (where I can sort out the problem myself). First of all, my problem stems back from Tiger in which my system preferences reset after I turn my Mac off. When I power on again, my dock is reset back to it's default settings (even after a Leopard upgrade today, this problem still persists). My mouse and trackpad settings reset etc. Secondly, Firefox 3 now refuses to open. Thirdly, in Safari I keep getting an error message in EVERY new page I navigate to saying that my keychain is corrupted or something to that effect. Forth, my harddrive is saying that I have around 50gb free despite the fact that I know I have at least 30gb more after clearing out old documents and applications (I was sad enough to count as I deleted one thing after the other). Lastly, now after upgrading I am getting a constant error message saying that the "installedb" file failed to open and all I can really do to get rid of the message is select "ignore". ANY help would be appreciated as I am getting quite...anxious about the whole thing. A year running without issues and now all of this at once? Also I am running 10.5.4 which has not corrected any of these problems. I am currently abroad, so even though I can just do a fresh install which I am tempted to do right now despite the hour, I don't want to have to resort to that unless necessary. It also leaves me in a grey area as my Office 2008 was a single use installation and I do not know if I can afford to really lose the app by doing a complete wipe and reinstall. My apologies if any of this seems vague (I will elaborate where necessary). It is just incredibly frustrating to have a myriad of issues all at once when I have not had a single running issue for the past year. [/QUOTE]
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