Disastrous side effects

[Julio C.]

Hello everybody,

A very short time ago, life used to treat me better. As a present I received a PowerBook G-4 running with mac os X ver.9, and discovered the beautiful realm of movie-clip editing in Final Cut. What I am trying to say is that I am very new to the interface, outside editing in FC my knowledge is extremely limited. Turning the warning signs off the problem I have is the following: I got back to my house from a long trip to discover that my computer had crashed to the ground in my absence, the physical damage wasn’t as nasty as expected, the injuries can only be seen in the top right corner of the screen’s case and on the lower right corner of the key-pad. My brother sent to fix the computer and by the looks of it what those guys did was just making the computer run from the start-up.
Since the crash it has the following disastrous side-effects:
-When importing audio tracks to FC a nasty and continuous bleep is added to the song.
-While managing several tasks at the same time the computer freezes.
-While surveying certain folders (specially in the utility folder) it also freezes.
-The msn messenger’s icon appears with an incrustrated interrogation sign on top of it and the app can’t be opened.
-One program makes the computer freeze. So I uninstalled it and downloaded it again, but the installer I download appears with a Microsoft excel icon.
-When I try to hear certain songs, specially with the interpol’s first album, in my I-tunes music library, the song stops and the spinning wheel appears.
-And the shittiest recent side effect is: Yesterday when I launched the I-tunes player the ever spinning wheel appeared and the following paraphrased warning sign popped in the screen: the music library isn’t recognized by I-tunes, or something to that effect.

I need serious help. Before I found this community that gathers all of the big hearts on the net I entered mac softpedia, in the site they have a good article titled “prevent the mac disaster” and its too much for my current knowledge, so I have been looking for help ever since…

Forgot to add that I already checked the permissions.

Thank you for reading

 

[sgould]

I'm not sure what's happening here, but the first thing I would do is start up from the Install CD (Hold down C key while starting). Then run the disk repair from that. You can't repair the disk when it's the startup disk.

 

[adambyte]

-When importing audio tracks to FC a nasty and continuous bleep is added to the song.

This particular problem has nothing to do with "damage" of any kind. You're using an audio file such as an MP3 that needs to be rendered. Choose "Render All" from the "Sequence" menu in Final Cut. The beeping is an indication that the audio needs rendering.

-While managing several tasks at the same time the computer freezes.
-While surveying certain folders (specially in the utility folder) it also freezes.

Sounds like you need to do some disk maintainence. Put your latest Mac OS X Installer CD into the Mac, restart, and hold down the "C" key until you see the Apple logo. Then look in one of the menus... I forget which... to open "Disk Utility." Click your hard disk and click "repair permissions" as well as "repair disk."

-The msn messenger’s icon appears with an incrustrated interrogation sign on top of it and the app can’t be opened.

Heh. Do you mean a big "?"... this means the app is missing. You may have moved it, or, more likely, been using the app from the "virtual disk image." Install it by making sure a copy is in your "Applications" folder, then drag THAT copy to the dock. Remove the offending "?" by dragging it out of the dock.

-One program makes the computer freeze. So I uninstalled it and downloaded it again, but the installer I download appears with a Microsoft excel icon.

Sounds like the installer has the wrongs suffix. Rename the installer and add ".app" do the end of it. Press return. Then double click and install.

-When I try to hear certain songs, specially with the interpol’s first album, in my I-tunes music library, the song stops and the spinning wheel appears.
-And the shittiest recent side effect is: Yesterday when I launched the I-tunes player the ever spinning wheel appeared and the following paraphrased warning sign popped in the screen: the music library isn’t recognized by I-tunes, or something to that effect.

No idea.

Forgot to add that I already checked the permissions.

Well, hey, it's a start!

Hope this helps.

 

[SatCure]

When I try to hear certain songs, specially with the interpol’s first album, in my I-tunes music library, the song stops and the spinning wheel appears.
-And the shittiest recent side effect is: Yesterday when I launched the I-tunes player the ever spinning wheel appeared and the following paraphrased warning sign popped in the screen: the music library isn’t recognized by I-tunes, or something to that effect.

This can happen if your iTunes music isn't where iTunes expects it to be - for example if you've renamed your Hard Drive or the music folder or moved the music.

The spinning beachball indicates that iTunes is having problems accessing the fle. this could be a sign of a corrupted file or a bad Hard Drive. (Dropping them isn't always a good move for reliability).

Back up all your irreplaceable files. Run repairs. Consider fitting a new Hard Drive, just to be on the safe side. (I tend to replace mine every 3 years anyway).