Recent content by uncertainworld

Bob, I have, but it's a pc running xp, which i'm not sure will pick it up. I don't have a firewire cable, but the two computers have firewire ports, so i'll run out and get one if it's worth a pop. I am rather astonished that just following the advice from apple to update my os has left me...

Hi Bob, Thanks a lot for taking the time to post that. When I did the fsck -f it came up with no problems, so I followed the rest of the instructions and rebooted. Now the spotlight icon has disappeared too, (no menu, no dock) but I still have my original desktop picture, which gives me...

next time i'll do that. meantime i'd just like to get my computer running! is it possible the spotlight is re-indexing? spotlight icon is the only thing on the desktop, and if i run over it with the cursor it turns to that swirly rainbow. it's been running over an hour and has gone to sleep...

I had one of those pop-up Software Update boxes appear urging me to download security updates for osx, itunes, backup and the like. Normally I ignore these things - if it ain't broke... - but this time I agreed, downloaded the stuff as advised, restarted the computer when prompted, and now the...