Loosing Dock and Finder prefs after restart |
September, 22, 2002 6:08 AM |
carlo.noben |
I'm not sure if it's related, but since upgrading to 10.2 (and the problem persists in 10.2.1), almost everytime I restart, the dock and Finder revert to default settings. I say almost everytime, because sometimes it's not the case, but rarely. I can see any pattern when it happens and when not. I checked my disc for damages with several utilities with no result. Did someone here on the board have similar problems or know a solution to this *very* annoying problem? My configuration: PowerMac 8500 with Newer G3/500 upgrade card, 160 MB of RAM and XPF 2.2.2 |
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RE: Loosing Dock and Finder prefs after restart |
September, 25, 2002 2:17 AM |
willschou1 |
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Gauge Pro. It should be available do a search with Google.com. You need to turn off Virtual memory to run the Memory tests. I say let it run over night that will likely tell you if you have a bad chip. It will however take trial and error and moving chips around to find the bad one :-( It's not a quick and easy thing to test for a number of reasons. The system uses some ram to run and that ram will not be tested. That is why you will need to move chips around and test more then once. Some people think 1200 passes on the test is enough. I'm not sure and run it over night. |
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RE: Loosing Dock and Finder prefs after restart |
September, 24, 2002 8:21 AM |
carlo.noben |
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What utility can I use to test my RAM? |
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RE: Loosing Dock and Finder prefs after restart |
September, 24, 2002 4:10 AM |
willschou1 |
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Yes, I had similar problems. I also switched to an IDE drive on an ATA/66 pci card. 10.1.5 and older had been on an old SCSI drive. It ran well but slow. It took me forever to figure out what was causing my problem. I did everything I could think of. I even bought a new IDE drive. Updated the firmware on the ATA 66 card took my machine apart several times. I was sure my OSX CD was bad,tried different CDrom players etc. After all but giving up and going back to the slow SCSI drive I found the problem. It was a bad ram chip. I couldn't belive it ran fine in OS 9. I can't say that is your problem but worth testing your ram. |
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RE: Loosing Dock and Finder prefs after restart |
September, 22, 2002 4:19 PM |
gte950h |
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I have had this happen to me too, running XPF 2.2, OSX10.2 on my 8500 w/newer g3/266. However, mine is more rare, its happened maybe 3 or 4 times. |
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RE: Loosing Dock and Finder prefs after restart |
September, 22, 2002 6:10 AM |
carlo.noben |
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"can" should be "can't" in my post above, of course. Another question: is there any way to edit one's posts? |