Recent content by CMXander

My comp crashed a THIRD time. This time I may have an answer, though. I was talking with one of the Mac guys here, at my work, about my problems and his thought was that the Mail.app program itself could be the cause. I have Mail checking 3 email accounts. With those accounts I download all...

I got everything to work properly. Partitioning my drive the first try helpped. I was able to run in OS 9 and check out my OS X partition using Norton Antivirus. Using the updated definitions I scanned the drive and the files checked out ok, but when it was scannning the compressed archives...

Alright here is an update. I made a backup of my Library (System and User) and then I partitioned it (I've been wanting to separate Classic and OS X forever but I hate reinstalls) and reinstalled Classic and OS X. Everything was working fine and I slowly put back the Library. When I put in...

I checked the permissions and then seemed to be normal. And under different circumstances I would agree with you, but the Terminal does the same thing to root. As for logging in as root - point taken.

Hi, I was checking out how to change my login window at ResExcellence. I downloaded one and looked at it. I logged in as root and copied the original login files to my Desktop. I didn't changed any of the files for the login window. There were some folders in the Users directory that were...

I have a similar folder, "temp", that I cannot delete because the Finder says the folder is in use and from the Terminal rmdir says the directory is not empty. What I have noticed about the "temp" is that located inside were 1 "." and 2 ".." To have it recursively remove the directories inside...