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2004 / Major system (or user) problems. Help!!

« on: January 02, 2004, 05:05:01 AM »

Well, it turned out to be pretty simple, really. Of course. Viva la Mac. Trashing some receipts and downloading iTunes 3 first seemed to do the trick. Disabling the filevault made life easier, too....duh.
Limewire doesn't run as smoothly still, but overall things run well and I didn't lose anything. External CD burner is on the list just in case.
RHP, the links were all I needed, especially macattorney. Took a few hours and now we're golden. Thank you friends.

-Dylan

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2004 / Major system (or user) problems. Help!!

« on: December 25, 2003, 11:05:36 PM »

Well, I'm not sure exactly where to start. I believe this all started when I downloaded and installed the 12/17/03 update to Panther, 10.3.2., which I did this morning.
Maybe a coincidence, but up to that point everything ran like a champ. I have a 2000 edition iMac, Power PC 750, 500mhz CPU speed, 1GB RAM.

The first problem I noticed was with iTunes. It would not play anything in the library because it recognized the library as invalid. Pardon my ignorance of the exact message, I should've written it down. However, Quicktime will play all of these file without a hitch and all of these files (songs) in the iTunes library have Quicktime icons next to them now rather than iTunes now. After several attempts, I trashed iTunes and just tried to reinstall it. I can't do that either. The .dmg file downloaded without incident, and the iTunes installer disk is on my desktop. When I click that to install, I get a new window with the iTunes4.mpkg. Clicked on that. I selected 10.3.2 as the volume to install (which has 19.2 GB free space). This is where things start to look funny. It indicates that "Installing this software requires 0 bytes of space." Why is that? When I click continue, the package names: iTunes for Mac OS X and iPod Driver for Mac OS X are greyed out, the action on both is disabled, and both files have a size of 0 bytes. The "easy install' and "install" buttons  are greyed out and I've hit a brick wall. "Go Back" is the only option I have at this point. I just CANNOT install iTunes!!

Also, all the favorites and preferences saved in Explorer have vanished and it appears now that Explorer has just been installed. I saved everything, all the links and preferences all over again and after I verifyed and repaired the disk permissions and restarted her. When I log back in, I discover everything has vanished again. A neat little trick, but frustrating to say the least.

Every time I log out now, Limewire needs to be reinstalled and the entire library in Limewire has vanished, with the exception of a msnmessenger.dmg file which I have no idea why it's even there.

I have no idea what's going on here and would like to do everything I can before I wipe everything out and reformat. The little iMac does not have a CD-RW drive, and I can't back anything up. There's so much I consider vital to keep.

If anyone can help, I'll be forever in debt.

Thanks in advance.