Atlanta Macintosh Users Group - Mac OS X

Re: Oh OH Big Problem !!!

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:15:30 GMT

Thanks a lot for the information.
This makes me feel a whole lot better.

Jeff

Re: Oh OH Big Problem !!!

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:05 GMT

There are only two things that would go 'poof'. Pulling something out of the Finder sidebar (the column of icons on the left side of finder windows if enabled). You can add things by dragging them into the side bar, and you can remove items by dragging them out. You can also go to the Finder preferences under the Finder menu and add or remove default items.

The other place would be the Dock when you drag something off.

In either case you won't actually loose the item, just the shortcut to the item in either location.

Re: Oh OH Big Problem !!!

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:02:53 GMT

I've accidentally done that while in the Finder window. On the left side there are icons for the drives at the top and for home, documents, etc at the bottom. These are just shortcuts and shouldn't be a problem.

I think you can go to finder preferences and reinstate the items that your missing.

Oh OH Big Problem !!!

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:24:15 GMT

Something very weird just happened and I am very worried that I deleted a file or folder.

I was closing many windows and while closing one there was the whispy puff sound and graphic just like when you pull something from the dock to delete it- it puffs away.

I wasn't near the dock though, I was closing some Word documents and closing finder windows with list of files in it, as far as I can remember.

My question is since I can't "see" what I might have deleted, is there a way in the 10.4.10 OS that I am running, to determine which files or folders were deleted just now???

If there is, Please let me know ASAP, I am really nervous that something inadvertently got deleted. I am well backed up, but if I can't determine which file was the one deleted then eventually I wil overwrite the backup disk and loose the file.

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: Computer will not shut down properly

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:04:55 GMT

Well, it sounds like something is keeping the system from doing a clean shutdown.

Try installing AppleJack, reboot into single user mode, and run AppleJack. It checks for and fixes a lot of stuff. Permissions repair, verification of plist preference files, fsck (disk repair), and a few other things.

If that doesn't fix it we can try some other things.