[DM-MUG] Repair boot drive.

[Ray Bowler]

Hi,

Something which you might want to try first would be to go to your  
utilities folder ( to the Dock) select and run Disk Utilities. Select  
your HD and then do "Repair permissions". This will take a while but  
may cure your problem. I am not sure that repairing the HD will help  
your problem but it might. The directions in the article should work  
but the initial screen may be different. But the basics are right and  
it shouldn't  do any harm.


On Oct 12, 2009, at Oct 12, 20095:12 PM, AB wrote:

> My HDD seems to need repaired. I'm pretty sure this is due to my  
> font management library, Suitcase fusion conflicting for whatever  
> reason with Adobe suite.
>
> To my understanding if I follow the directions found here.
> http://macs.suite101.com/article.cfm/when_macs_crash
>
> it won't erase the current or existing applications and files? Am I  
> mistaken? I've only done complete installs and upgrades with Macs.  
> On Windows I know there's a repair option and performed such on  
> countless occasions.
>
> I know I should back up files before performing maintenance.  
> However, my present budget doesn't allow me to make any unexpected  
> purchases right now and the backup would be to large to manually  
> break down to be backed up on discs as I don't have enough to do so.  
> And the system needing repairs is 10.4.11 which means it does not  
> have the Time Machine.capabilities.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> -A.
>
>
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Ray Bowler

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