Need help with Powerbook G4 running Tiger osx 10.4.5

[MorganB21]

Hi-

I really need some help with my mac G4 powerbook. I am currently running Tiger OSx version 10.4.5. Where to begin....first of all I noticed a problem when I tried to install some applications...mac osx updates etc....they are supposed to be .dmg files but some of them come up as .pkg files. When this happens and when i double click on the icon to install the program or file the program icon bounces up and down in my dash and so does a little notepad icon with an A on it. Sort of like the icon for the applications folder....This icon also bounces in the dash and eventually dissapears...While trying to troubleshoot i realized that my utilites will not open....I encounter the same bouncing of the icon in the dash (notepad with A on it). Same thing occurs when I go up to the apple icon and go to software update...and same thing also happens when trying to go to the disk utility...as well as when i go to "about this mac" and then try to go to "more info". The last part of the problem is that when i go to idisk I receive an error message saying "the volume for idisk cannot be found".... Any help that could be provided would be very much appreciated. Thank you

-Morgan

 

[macworks]

What method did you use to install 10.4? Did you "Erase & Install", "Archive & Install", or "Upgrade"? Was there a previous version of OS X on it? If so, which version. If it was 10.2, it's best to "Archive & Install" or "Erase & Install" (if you don't need the data).

Did you migrate your user account or is it the default account create when you installed the OS?

You might also need to boot into "safe mode" and run fsck on the hard drive.

 

[macworks]

The "notepad" with an A on it indicates that the system sees the item as an application but cannot locate the custom icon for the application.