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Any ideas of what to do next? Is the best thing to save all the data on to an external harddrive and re-format those partitions - or is it possible the problem could re-occur??? Thanks!

The "ignore ownership on volume" box wasn't selected. When I did select it though, the problem still happened. The "owner" of each partition is set to system.

I Haven't checked this - but I will later tonight, thanks.

Hi, I'm following up from a previous request for help, unfortunately the 'ticket' expired before I really got to grips with things. The one response I had was: 'alex try putting your mac os cd in and restart the system holding down the letter d key and let me know what happens.'...

Just one extra thing - with the first partition to have problems I am unable to copy/write any file size (eg KB size files) with the most recent partition I found I could copy a 2.3MB Jpeg. The problem occured when I tried to copy a 680MB .mov file (there was enough space - about 1.8GB)

Hi, I have a PPC G5 iMac 2.1GHz, 1.5GB. The Internal Hard drive is 250GB in total and partitioned into 4 sections. After working fine for ages I suddenly found I can't copy files into one of the partitions. Initially I got an error message saying: "DS_store could not be tead or written...

Hi, I have a PPC G5 iMac 2.1GHz, 1.5GB. The Internal Hard drive is 250GB in total and partitioned into 4 sections. After working fine for ages I suddenly can't copy files into one of the partitions. Initially I got an error message saying: "DS_store could not be tead or written. (Error...

Hi, I have a PPC G5 iMac 2.1GHz, 1.5GB. The Internal Hard drive is 250GB in total and partitioned into 4 sections. After working fine for ages I suddenly can't copy files into one of the partitions. Initially I got an error message saying: "DS_store could not be tead or written. (Error...

Bingo! tried the old rage128 and it seems to be intact in os9.1 so at least the machine itself lives on thanks for the suggestion now to find out if os X fairs any better...? I've not found any similar examples of problems where only the task bar can be seen... perhaps i just need a full...

Hi, I have an old G4 which I've been using as a good old back-up/workhorse. G4 dual 500mhz, 1Gz ram, os 10.4 (with updated firmware), 2 x 120GB seagate baraccudas, ati radeon 9800 (256mb, 2xAGP compatible), standard mouse, standard keyboard Just recently I was downloading a quicktime...

Well I don't know why that might have happened, it certainly wasn't done on purpose. Apologies anyway.

Hi All, I was having some major problems with my G4 (follow thread http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=268717) but touch wood the new video card i've installed will save my life. As part of my quest to understand whats going on i've been checking out the system.log as well as all...

Just had another look at the system.log after a crash. don't know if these two might be important: Feb 25 16:46:34 localhost /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: *** Warning: ATSUSetFontFallbacks has been deprecated. Use ATSUFontFallbacks objects instead. *** Feb 25 17:09:22...

Sorry Nixgeek forgot to respond to you suggestion for the screensavers... I only have the one's that come with os X. I set it to 'never' last nignt. The computer did run for the longest single stretch it has in about 2 months after doing that (about 5 hours...) but it still crashed in the end

Thanks. Checked the system.log which showed a crash reported at library/logs/crashreporter/preview.crash.log Looks like the application preview crashed? although I'm sure I didn't have it on at that point not sure what the important information in the crash report is but for starters it...

Just tried the CMU button. Seemed ok for a bit, went out came back and it had frozen on the screensaver. So that didn't fix it. Could the fact that it pretty much always freezes if it goes onto the screensaver be a clue to anything??

I've read about a few other cases where a dud fan in the video card has caused similar problems. Thing is though that my video card is so old (the original AGP 1x card) that it just has a heatsink... unless of course the heat contact glue has dried up or something making it less effective...

Ok I downloaded the temperature monitor and run it. I think my machines too old to have temp sensors on the processor though (i read they started putting them in from the mirror dorr g4 onwards), so the only readings i got were from my harddrives all sitting nicely between 14 and 16 degrees C...

Hi, Hoping that someone out there may be able to help with a major ongoing problem. Problem: My G4 freezes - the cursor stops moving, no keys have any affect, any progress bars on screen or processes stop. It is a complete standstill nothing happens and nothing (unpluging cables etc)...