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After I force quit my powerbook(G4 1.25) and restart, I can login and have the old background image. But the top menu only show spotlight without anything else include my desktop folders and dock. I have turned FileVault on and I can't resore my desktop file. I tried all my best include using...

My MAC PowerBook G4 running 10.4.2 was running ok. I left for 1/2 hour and came back to a black screen. I power cycled and it comes up, I get a Starting Mac OS X window and then no Login window, just a blue screen. The cursor works. I have corrected permissions. Booting single user and...

I recently reset my coworker's password (as she is using a laptop left by a previous employee). I reset using the MAC OS X 10.3.2 installer Disc, and going to "Reset Password". After doing so, when I rebooted, I lost the user (my coworker) and was unable to access her desktop. However, I see...

Hello folks! Anyone up for an idea? Installing my Tiger system (PowerMac G4), with the Enlish (american) system language used. Input language is, and always will be, Swedish -because that is where my computer is located, and it's got a swedish keyboard as well. However, lately users...

Here's my problem. I am running Panther. I booted up the computer, and got a folder with a question mark on the screen. Nothing else. I popped in the OS X cd that came with the machine, and ran the disk repair utility. It repaired something with the catalogs. I rebooted, and now, I have a new...

When I get to the login screen and type in my password, the progress bar works, then the screen momentarily goes blue, then the login screen shows up again. This happens every time. I've tried restarting, shutting down and starting up, unplugging the machine, disconnecting various devices...

I have 4 user accounts on my powerbook and all of them will allow access but one. When I click on the name in the login window and enter my password, the screen goes blue and either freezes there, or kicks back to the login window. The first few times it did this a crash report popped up...

got an X Serve running OS X Server 10.4.......... and a heap of Emacs running 10.4. I have the server setup with home directories, etc, etc.... how do I make the client computers look to the server for logins, etc? (and automount home directories) At the moment, the client PCs just have a local...

Mac OS X server 10.3.9 Hi, again some Q. Why when a user try to login at the server, it receive the following message: -- "You are unable to log in to the user account "my user" at this time" Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred. The home folder for the user...

Hi, I have built an application using xcode mainly using applescript and some shell script. The app is setup to tell the user that they have to agree to the company internet and email policy before entering the computer. It grabs a copy of the policy from an ftp site internally and copies it...

Hi, I recently purchased a used white/gray iBook from a thrift store. When starting up the Mac i get a Mac OS 9 login screen from the previous owner. How do i remove the old user and put my name in there? I've even tried to reformat the iBook but it won't boot from the CD when i hold...

I have accidentally deleted the Adobe PDF driver from the print centre. What is the easiest way to reinstall it? I found instructions saying I should login as 'root' go to the terminal application and delete a backend file. If this is the easiest way, how do I create a root login? Many...

I've got a dual G4 Powermac, 1.25mhz mirrored drive doors, running 10.4.2 that has a problem about 20% of the time waking from sleep. I have it set to require a password to get through the screensaver. What happens is, sometimes when it sleeps I will attempt to wake it up and the display will...

my computer used to connect to airport automatically at startup, now i have to manually connect. dunno why, it used to work. does anyone have a clue because i cannot see an option to connect at startup in the system prefs (ok, theres automatic in the location menu and automatic in the "by...

i recently got my new dual G5 and transferred some files by connecting from my Cube via logging in through my router after logging in as admin on Cube so i could access all files... all of a sudden today i can not log in to the Cube as admin nor connect as a registered user via my G5 with...

I try to turn on the PHP in apache,but can not . so thank u for helping how to login in by root .

This is really weird, my computer shut down fine last nite, and I didnt do anything out of the ordinary. And now, everytime I login on my username I get a kernel panic and it forces me to restart... I can login as root fine, so I could make a new user account but I'd like to see if there's an...

I have an older 2000-era iMac running 10.2.8. I just added a Seagate 200GB external drive with a firewire interface. I've put two partitions on it. The drive itself seems to function normally. Here is the problem scenario: 1. logoff normally with external drive mounted 2. Allow the...

I updated my system with the 10.4.2 update using auto-update. After the installation I restarted as it directed me to. It looked like it was going to boot okay until the loading progress bar got all the way to the end and just sat there twirling. I thought maybe it was part of the update so I...

Hi, is it possible to have a screensaver at the login screen in Tiger? I have 100 e-macs in a university computer lab and would like to have a screensaver runing while the computers are sitting idle, but can't find an option to do this... Any help would be much appreciated... Thanks