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<blockquote data-quote="naftalim" data-source="post: 527011" data-attributes="member: 38627"><p>I was helping a friend today. I installed Leopard for her successfully last week on a Powermac G4. I installed a LaCie d2 Quadra 500GB backup drive and today I partitioned into 3 volumes. Backed everything up with Carbon Copy Cloner. and everything worked well. At the end, I ran Software Update which installed updates for Quicktime and iTunes. </p><p></p><p>Thats when the problems started. First, Spotlight started indexing all the backup volumes. I tried to stop that but couldn't. Then Finder was not responding, I tried to relaunch but it did not help. All I get is the coloured beachball. The dock is there, the applications work, but no Finder. </p><p></p><p>I booted from CDs, ran Verify Disk and all was fine. Tried to run Verify Permissions, and that was taking a long time (This seems to be a Leopard problem in general)</p><p></p><p>I read online that this operation below in Terminal works, but I am not sure exactly how to type it as I have not used Terminal before. I also don't know if this is the right solution. Do I type exactly as it is below or without the quotation marks. I typed it without the quotation marks. </p><p></p><p>sudo mv "/Library/Application Support/DivXNetworks" "/Library/Application Support/DivXNetworks.prev"</p><p></p><p>I also read something about deleting the Finder Preference Files, but I dont know how to do that. </p><p></p><p>Thanks for your help.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="naftalim, post: 527011, member: 38627"] I was helping a friend today. I installed Leopard for her successfully last week on a Powermac G4. I installed a LaCie d2 Quadra 500GB backup drive and today I partitioned into 3 volumes. Backed everything up with Carbon Copy Cloner. and everything worked well. At the end, I ran Software Update which installed updates for Quicktime and iTunes. Thats when the problems started. First, Spotlight started indexing all the backup volumes. I tried to stop that but couldn't. Then Finder was not responding, I tried to relaunch but it did not help. All I get is the coloured beachball. The dock is there, the applications work, but no Finder. I booted from CDs, ran Verify Disk and all was fine. Tried to run Verify Permissions, and that was taking a long time (This seems to be a Leopard problem in general) I read online that this operation below in Terminal works, but I am not sure exactly how to type it as I have not used Terminal before. I also don't know if this is the right solution. Do I type exactly as it is below or without the quotation marks. I typed it without the quotation marks. sudo mv "/Library/Application Support/DivXNetworks" "/Library/Application Support/DivXNetworks.prev" I also read something about deleting the Finder Preference Files, but I dont know how to do that. Thanks for your help. Thanks for your help. [/QUOTE]
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