Computer Woes and Foes
Aug. 7th, 2013 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerFinally had to give up and reinstall Snow Leopard on the old iMac. (Too old for any of the newer versions of OS X.)
Something got corrupted a few months back, and running Disc Utility wouldn't fix it. Main problem was it wouldn't remember settings like network passwords, even when I told it to. Had to tell iTunes I loved it dearly, with passwords, every time I wanted to open it. (Though once I was in I didn't have to reauthorize it, fortunately.)
Last night it went completely kaflooey. Kept telling me every folder was write protected, even after I manually made them writable.
Tried Disc Utility, but after hours of running it was still saying it needed nine hours to complete (same as at the start, even though I could see it was making progress). I thought about letting it run, but finally shut it down. This morning the iMac wouldn't boot from the HD, so I booted it from the DVD and reinstalled. Now going through updates.
Something got corrupted a few months back, and running Disc Utility wouldn't fix it. Main problem was it wouldn't remember settings like network passwords, even when I told it to. Had to tell iTunes I loved it dearly, with passwords, every time I wanted to open it. (Though once I was in I didn't have to reauthorize it, fortunately.)
Last night it went completely kaflooey. Kept telling me every folder was write protected, even after I manually made them writable.
Tried Disc Utility, but after hours of running it was still saying it needed nine hours to complete (same as at the start, even though I could see it was making progress). I thought about letting it run, but finally shut it down. This morning the iMac wouldn't boot from the HD, so I booted it from the DVD and reinstalled. Now going through updates.
