I have a mac 10.3.9 and i turned it on and nothing was on the desktop and finder wont open. I can still use the stuff on my dock though. I have the startup disk. I cant do anything with my files. Ive tried reinstalling panther, but it just gives me a new account or something that doesn't even have any of my files. Don't know what to do?
finder not opening!!!!
- Thread starter meekie
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Frida
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Forgive me if I am suggesting something very basic, but have you tried repairing permissions using DiskUtility? If you are unfamiliar with this procedure, this is what you do:
Go to Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility.
Click on the 'First Aid' tab below the toolbar.
Select your Mac Hard Drive partition from the list on the left.
At the bottom of the window click 'Repair Disk Permissions'.
If you get any message saying "Permissions differ on ", when the scan is complete repeat until no error messages appear (or the only messages are "We are using special permissions on " which can safely be ignored).
If your problems persist, restart from your installer disk (see below) and proceed as above but instead of clicking 'Repair Disk Permissions' click 'Repair Disk'.
Note: If you can't access DiskUtility on your computer, then start up from the installer disk (restart with the installer disk in the drive and hold down the 'c' key until you see the Apple logo). When presented with a window asking which language to use, click 'English'. When the next window appears, do not continue with the installation but go to the now available top menu and under the 'Installer' heading select 'DiskUtility'. Proceed as above.
Go to Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility.
Click on the 'First Aid' tab below the toolbar.
Select your Mac Hard Drive partition from the list on the left.
At the bottom of the window click 'Repair Disk Permissions'.
If you get any message saying "Permissions differ on ", when the scan is complete repeat until no error messages appear (or the only messages are "We are using special permissions on " which can safely be ignored).
If your problems persist, restart from your installer disk (see below) and proceed as above but instead of clicking 'Repair Disk Permissions' click 'Repair Disk'.
Note: If you can't access DiskUtility on your computer, then start up from the installer disk (restart with the installer disk in the drive and hold down the 'c' key until you see the Apple logo). When presented with a window asking which language to use, click 'English'. When the next window appears, do not continue with the installation but go to the now available top menu and under the 'Installer' heading select 'DiskUtility'. Proceed as above.
VirtualTracy
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Try deleting the Finder preferences file which is located at:
Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Frida
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Try deleting one more file, Hard drive/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. Drag it to the trash, then log out and in again. I don't suppose you have DiskWarrior? That's the only third party utility I use. I have only used it twice since buying it many moons ago but it reliably rebuilt my directory and fixed my problems on both occasions where DiskUtility and TechTools had failed.