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bp, the reson this happend to you is that when you copy files and/or folders, the permissions of the copied files and folders are set to the user you copied them with! Now, when you put your 'library' folder into your roomates account folder, then copied them back to your folder, you not only...

Hold 's' while your computer starts up. Single user mode will load up.... Look for something that sais "debug." Notice how it tell your that it is on.........

If u want to log in as text only (it does not load quartz), type ">console" as your login. Quartz will quit, then it will ask you for your login. After you typed in your login and pw, you will be presented with "Welcome to Darwin"...... [Edited by ITz The MaN on 12-06-2000 at 09:54 PM]

theres a program for people in your situation! go to : http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=8973

I have the exact same problem! I made a post myself a while back. I think there is a bug in the app makes it so that no partition/hard drive shows up if there are multiple partitions/hard drives. I too have an external fire wire hard drive as well as the internal hard drive the computer came...

Could it be that classic and carbon apps are the problems or just apps run under classic? Classic is very slow, so i would not be surprised if things also get downloaded slower under classic (in fact, I tested it, and it seems downloads are much slower under classic). I don't have a cocoa apps...

You could save color sync settings with a lower contrast (i am not realy sure if this is possible but worth a shot trying), then select the saved setting in your color sync prefs from the "system prefrences" Good luck!

Ok, i tested the installer by turning my fire wire hard drive off and booting up, then testing the installer. the installer program could find the internal hard drive this time! It seems like the installer doesn not like multiple partitions/ hard drives for some reason...... Any more input is...

There is a program to fix this problem.... Go to http://www.versiontracker.com, and serch for "make disks visible" and download it!

I also have two partitions-- physical hard drives, actually(one internal 6 gig IDE HFS+, and an external fire wire 45 gig HFS+). I recently got the fire wire drive... maby that is the problem... I will try booting without the fire wire drive on later (its 1:30 a.m.), and see if the installer...

Apple reliced Apple works 6.0.4 before OS X PB. I dont think they made it 100% compatible with OS X PB, so all you can do for now is wait untill apple puts out an update.

Every time I start up print center on any user (even admin) other than root, it gives me an error saying: "Print Center must run with administrator privileges." Then in smaller font it sais: "The print center software is not configured correctly. Please check and, if necessary, reinstall your...

I recently got Quake 3 and tried using it under os x with Q3 made by omni group. Every time I start it up, the splash screen comes up, then it it switches my monitor to a resolution too high for my monitor, writing out "Out of range" on my monitor. I can quit quake by pressing command + q then...

Go to this thread: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1011 It explains a realy cool trick to lock your screen!

I found out that when you install x tools, the installer also installs xfree86 onto your system. So if anyone is looking for an easy way to install xfreee86 you should go with x tools. Now that we have a working xfree86, would all linux apps work under x tools if compiled for the ppc? I am a...

A while ago I started having a problem using the installer app. Anything I tryed to install could not find a hard drive to intall itself into! I know many other people have this problem too. Has anyone found out a way to fix this, or another way of installing apps? Anything?

What is the best way to use X windows on os X, and how can I get it on my machine?! And once I do get it, can I use X windows programs compiled for Intel or do I have to recompile them for my PPC? Thanx!

I am not sure what I did, but my monitor does go into energy saving mode even while I am logged off. I set my account and the root account's "energy saver" control panel so that there is a seperate timer for monitor to "sleep." The system never seems to go to sleep, but the monitor does, even...

Many people have been saying that the debuging in mac os x is slowing it down.... while snooping around my computer (to set up annonomous ftp) i found a file in the folder /System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/B/System called "System_debug." I was wondering if this file has...

You said something about the links being read only.... Well, doesnt root have read/write access to every file/folder? Or maby this is not your problem... You could hold s down durring start up which would load up a command prompt (which i only used to check for errors using "fsck." Or maby this...