[DM-MUG] Some, not all, apps. on G5 are not opening

[jim lagnese]

Archive and Install  is an option you can use when installing the OS from
DVD/CD. Consider it a "Clean Install" from the old days. When you run the
Mac OS X installer when booted off the DVD, click on Options I believe when
selecting the HD to install it on. I haven't done it in so long as I image
every thing now...


//On 6/12/07 12:57 PM, "Victoria L. Herring" <vlh at herringlaw.com> wrote:

>> That is the easy way...:) It sometimes helps to look in logs. Also, does
>> this happen for every user on the computer or just the one you login with?
> 
> I first noticed it when I switched to my Admin user and tried to run
> Onyx and it wouldn't...then I couldn't run in that user a few other
> things so restarted and went back to my main user and then noticed
> other apps wouldn't work = and yet others did....
> 
> if I archiveinstall = I find external HD large enough, archive to
> that, wipe the troublesomedrive, installback everything and keep user
> names and everything the same??  It's been awhile since I have done
> that....v