granny smith
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Hello Forum
1- got wine cooler spilt in my wirelesss keyboard.
it seems that shortly after this, cpu will freeze occasionally, no apps will work,
can't click on anything, but I can move the mouse cursor around the screen and music keeps playing from an app, itunes, etc
.no choice but to reboot. 1 in 10 times , instead of this , the machine just shuts off.
2-I 've run a memory check on each block, all came back good, I will get a new keyboard because I 'm pretty sure this is not related to it's issue but needs a reinstall. unless there could be another fix for this? when I reboot the cursor is always stuck on some icon on the desktop. like it's selecting it constantly for a while, then gets out if this loop.
3- I want to back up files before reinstalling , I have a 500g external drive
I use my i mac -( inter core 2, os 10.4.9 ) for music
I want to be able to back up my 250 gig internal drive so that I can format my imac ( never done this, assume all i need is my original cd )
and once I have reinstalled my apps I can access all the file back over that i need. - do I just need for the app do copy the entire app folder to the external drive? will the library copy over all my mail contacts etc to load back onto the new machine?
what is the easiest tool to do an entire copy from internal to external before formatting? - also I have things saved to the external that are not on the internal , there must be a way to not overwritten certain folders on the external but still copying the internal over>?
finally, is there a chance the issue i have is hardware related? or for sure just a case of 240 gig full on a 250gig drive after 2 years of solid use.
thanks much
Gran
1- got wine cooler spilt in my wirelesss keyboard.
it seems that shortly after this, cpu will freeze occasionally, no apps will work,
can't click on anything, but I can move the mouse cursor around the screen and music keeps playing from an app, itunes, etc
.no choice but to reboot. 1 in 10 times , instead of this , the machine just shuts off.
2-I 've run a memory check on each block, all came back good, I will get a new keyboard because I 'm pretty sure this is not related to it's issue but needs a reinstall. unless there could be another fix for this? when I reboot the cursor is always stuck on some icon on the desktop. like it's selecting it constantly for a while, then gets out if this loop.
3- I want to back up files before reinstalling , I have a 500g external drive
I use my i mac -( inter core 2, os 10.4.9 ) for music
I want to be able to back up my 250 gig internal drive so that I can format my imac ( never done this, assume all i need is my original cd )
and once I have reinstalled my apps I can access all the file back over that i need. - do I just need for the app do copy the entire app folder to the external drive? will the library copy over all my mail contacts etc to load back onto the new machine?
what is the easiest tool to do an entire copy from internal to external before formatting? - also I have things saved to the external that are not on the internal , there must be a way to not overwritten certain folders on the external but still copying the internal over>?
finally, is there a chance the issue i have is hardware related? or for sure just a case of 240 gig full on a 250gig drive after 2 years of solid use.
thanks much
Gran