eMac having all sorts of issues suddenly...Help please

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sluhser589

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Just gonna copy-paste what I posted on the Apple Discussion forums.

I restarted my eMac with File Vault and when I got back onto my account the dock was reset to default settings. All my files and programs were still there so I just recustomized the dock to what I had before. However when I opened Adium (my IM client) it didn't load my buddy lists. Then when I opened Firefox pages weren't loading properly.

Before I restarted I opened iPhoto where it was reset to default settings too but all my pictures were still there. And now as I'm trying to open iTunes its stuck with Importing "iTunes Music Library.xml"...

I can think of two events where the computer got hosed:
1)Downloading a free play list on iTunes via Facebook. Two of the ten songs downloaded with an error.
2)Downloading a .png screen shot a friend emailed me.

I think that pretty much sums things up. I know security updates for 10.3.9 have ceased so that may be the issue. I'm running Norton now to see if it catches anything. Any help here is much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything else you need to know to help remedy the problem.

Thanks,
Pete

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And right as I submit this message iTunes pops up claiming "iTunes Library" does not exist and renamed it something like "iTunes Library damaged."

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More:

The Norton scan found nothing.

I also ran the Apple Hardware Test and everything checked out.

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And now when I open iTunes it was "Determining Gapless Playback" only to leave my library with only 183 songs and no playlists.

If anyone has any idea what's going on that'd be great.
 
Son?

"Bumping" does not get you faster attention. If anything it frightens and irritates the Gurus. I more than understand the "panic" one experiences with a "problem"--having experienced them myself. However, you have to be patient. This is less than a day old.

You should read the "stickies." They have information on how to frame a question--particularly on how to provide information that can help even the Non-Gurus like myself--who believes his Macbook runs on piXies--faster than the previous 9nomes--offer suggestions.

I had a suggestion, but I have no idea whether or not it applies to your problem. Why you would be using Norton confuses and frightens me since it is largely incompatible with OS 10.

Right, to move this beyond chastisement born by my cold and irritating people on Al Gore's interwebs, a few things glean'd from reading stickies and similar threads:

1. Post Full Machine Specs: Model/Processor/RAM/HD/OS May not be necessary, but it can help.

2. Explain What Happened: Was everything hunkydory until you turned on FileVault? Or have you had it on and NOW something went wrong?

3. Explain What You Did: which you have mainly done, but have you run Disk Utility? What happened?

I suspect that FileVault is the problem. I used it once and frelled beyond belief my volume. There is a thread I started dedicated to it. Long story short--this was back when I had a Widdle Pismo G4--yes!--and had a separate OS 9 partition--9nomes were still hard workers! I "booted" on that and found, basically, "me" was renamed with like a "."

On my OS 10.4-something I had been locked away. I still do not understand it. But the bottom line is I had to rename "me"--booted up on my other partition--to what I was--without the "." and everything was largely okay.

Do not know if that at all helps you. The most obvious answer is "turn of [CENSORED--Ed.] FileVault," but if you cannot get to "you" that is a problem.

For security?

1. Forget FV. Do this in the future--set, obviously, your Admin password. Allow only that to see and use your critical files.

2. Set a Firmware password: this is separate and is done off of your Installation Disk. This prevents a scumbag from simply booting your computer off a disk and trying to steal your data, or simply erasing your disk. They basically have to remove your HD and erase it manually.

3. Consider an option like Undercover

In that, I have an Account anyone can use--so if they steal the computer they are surfing the net while telling the police where they are. I mention this because in this account you CANNOT see any of my files. None of them. No "forget ye nots," none of the highly artistic but morally objectionable Belgian lithographs, those photos of A-Fraud and Judas Daemon I have been saving for a rainy day . . . nothing.

--J.D.
 
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