Hi,
Hoping somewhere out there can help me out...recently my Powerbook G4 laptop (OS 10.3.9) has been acting up. Small things like icons on the top right menu bar above the desktop disappearing or changing opacity, and occsional blank spots on the desktop, to now more frequent crashes of Entourage, and Word, among other Office programs. Also, my hard drive disk space frequently changes from having no disk space to having over 3GB left.
I first tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility but after 30% of the way through got this: "disk utility has lost its connection with the disk managment tool and cannot continue. please quit and relaunch disk utility." I then quit and try again, same thing happens.
I have also tried repairing permission s with Onyx but it also doesn't seem to go very far. I haven't tried leaving it for hours, but the progress bar just seems to stall.
I then installed and ran permission repair on Cocktail, and it didn't have a visible progress bar, but I quit after 10 minutes when I just presumed the same issue was happenning - perhaps the issue that prevented Disk utility for completing its job.
Any advice on what route to go? Are the recent crashes and icon and display issues and changing disk space related - and is the failure for disk utility to run symptomatic of something?
Help!
Thanks,
Andy
Hoping somewhere out there can help me out...recently my Powerbook G4 laptop (OS 10.3.9) has been acting up. Small things like icons on the top right menu bar above the desktop disappearing or changing opacity, and occsional blank spots on the desktop, to now more frequent crashes of Entourage, and Word, among other Office programs. Also, my hard drive disk space frequently changes from having no disk space to having over 3GB left.
I first tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility but after 30% of the way through got this: "disk utility has lost its connection with the disk managment tool and cannot continue. please quit and relaunch disk utility." I then quit and try again, same thing happens.
I have also tried repairing permission s with Onyx but it also doesn't seem to go very far. I haven't tried leaving it for hours, but the progress bar just seems to stall.
I then installed and ran permission repair on Cocktail, and it didn't have a visible progress bar, but I quit after 10 minutes when I just presumed the same issue was happenning - perhaps the issue that prevented Disk utility for completing its job.
Any advice on what route to go? Are the recent crashes and icon and display issues and changing disk space related - and is the failure for disk utility to run symptomatic of something?
Help!
Thanks,
Andy