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For two weeks my G4 refused to acknowledge that Shift-Command-4 is a legit key combination. I had to use Grab for cropped screen shots. Shift-Command-Spacebar-4 didn't work, either.
I ran the fix apps — Onyx, MainMenu, Applejack, fsck -fy, the DVD's Disk Utility — (they're all the same, anyway) and lined up all the usual suspects and deleted them — plists and caches the fixer-uppers may have missed, and safe-started a couple of times and created a new user account. Nothing worked. Well, 4 worked. Shift-$ worked, but Shift-Command-4 wouldn't work.
A few minutes ago, Shift-Command-4 came back to life. Is this an example of cosmic-ray interference, of reverse entropy, of spontaneous mechanical healing? What gives?
I ran the fix apps — Onyx, MainMenu, Applejack, fsck -fy, the DVD's Disk Utility — (they're all the same, anyway) and lined up all the usual suspects and deleted them — plists and caches the fixer-uppers may have missed, and safe-started a couple of times and created a new user account. Nothing worked. Well, 4 worked. Shift-$ worked, but Shift-Command-4 wouldn't work.
A few minutes ago, Shift-Command-4 came back to life. Is this an example of cosmic-ray interference, of reverse entropy, of spontaneous mechanical healing? What gives?