On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Robert Snyder wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Robert Snyder wrote:
> >
> >>Branko wrote:
> >>
> >>>Lessons learned (for my sis): "don't force quit while the beach ball is
> >>>turning" (must be Mac speak).
> >[...]
> >>"don't force quit while the beach ball is turning"
> >>
> >>Translation, Dont Xkill a program while the cursor is an hourglass.
> >
> >s/Xkill a program/force a restart without unmounting or flushing caches/,
> >apparently.
> >
> >But if a program gets wedged, I don't see any not-bad options. If it's just
> >taking a long time, yeah, I agree.
> >
> I found OSX disk utility to be useless when something happens like
> this. I still use a two step method of repair.
>
> an old Norton system utilies based off of OS 9 use there symantechs disk
> repair. and then OSX installer to repair the permissions.
Do aftermarket apps have wonky permissions (that the OS X installer wouldn't
know about)?
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