I've looked around a bit and haven't found this particular problem. I apologize in advance if this has already been covered.
I have a mac mini with 512 MB RAM running Tiger and Classic. Our bookkeeper came to me saying her computer has died. When booting into her user profile the desktop appears but the only thing that shows up is the little blue magnifying glass in the right-hand corner. If you place the mouse over the magnifying glass you get the spinning beach ball. It never goes away and you cannot reboot, force quit, etc. You have to power down the computer. As administrator I can however log into my account fine and all the apps seem to work great. I've ran fsck -y, disc warrier, repaired permissions on the drive, even rebuilt the Classic desktop.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this before I trash her whole profile and start from scratch?
When the incident happened she said she was looking at something in Safari and went to do something in our ad taking program which is in classic.
Thanks in advance for any help!
kygail
I have a mac mini with 512 MB RAM running Tiger and Classic. Our bookkeeper came to me saying her computer has died. When booting into her user profile the desktop appears but the only thing that shows up is the little blue magnifying glass in the right-hand corner. If you place the mouse over the magnifying glass you get the spinning beach ball. It never goes away and you cannot reboot, force quit, etc. You have to power down the computer. As administrator I can however log into my account fine and all the apps seem to work great. I've ran fsck -y, disc warrier, repaired permissions on the drive, even rebuilt the Classic desktop.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this before I trash her whole profile and start from scratch?
When the incident happened she said she was looking at something in Safari and went to do something in our ad taking program which is in classic.
Thanks in advance for any help!
kygail