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10.4.10 problems..
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thanks for the prompt help.
I've done that twice now and have rebooted 3 times. the icon in the dock just bounces up and down for a while then stops and freezes for a moment.
Other apps like text edit and dashboard seem to open but everything else doesn't. Any ideas? Thanks again.
I've done that twice now and have rebooted 3 times. the icon in the dock just bounces up and down for a while then stops and freezes for a moment.
Other apps like text edit and dashboard seem to open but everything else doesn't. Any ideas? Thanks again.
Delete Application Launch Caches
We've had this problem on some Intel Macs at my school and you can probably fix the problem by deleting the LaunchServices caches. Go to:
Mac HD/Library/Caches/
Put the folder in list view and sort alphabetically. Delete all the files that begin with "com.apple.LaunchServices"
Then restart your computer and try to open the applications you're having trouble with.
Good luck!
We've had this problem on some Intel Macs at my school and you can probably fix the problem by deleting the LaunchServices caches. Go to:
Mac HD/Library/Caches/
Put the folder in list view and sort alphabetically. Delete all the files that begin with "com.apple.LaunchServices"
Then restart your computer and try to open the applications you're having trouble with.
Good luck!
Caches
I tried deleting the caches and restarting. It initiated a long restart and i still cant open the apps. I noticed in the cache list there was a kernelcache? whats this... Anyway thanks for your ideas.. any more??? im frustrated.
Cheers for the help
I tried deleting the caches and restarting. It initiated a long restart and i still cant open the apps. I noticed in the cache list there was a kernelcache? whats this... Anyway thanks for your ideas.. any more??? im frustrated.
Cheers for the help
Me too. QT updates esp. Then I decided to wait until you guys beta test them for a couple of weeks. Thanks
The only other thing I can suggest is to try deleting the LaunchServices caches in your Home -> Library -> Caches folder as well. Hope you get it fixed soon!
Oh, and I wouldn't touch any other of those caches (besides LaunchServices) if I were you. Generally speaking, you're not really supposed to touch them unless you know exactly what you're doing.
Spotlight can't find anything
hi peeps,
I've just updated x.10. Now spotlight can't find anything. I"ve repaired the permission but still having the same problems. Please advice. Thanx!!
hi peeps,
I've just updated x.10. Now spotlight can't find anything. I"ve repaired the permission but still having the same problems. Please advice. Thanx!!
Try using one of the techniques in this thread:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050424201429961
To force a re-index of the spotlight for the main drive.
Hi.. I tried but this msg came out
Last login: Sat Jun 23 23:30:30 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Colins-iMac:~ colin$ sudo mdutil -E /
Password:
/:
Error, no index found for volume.
Colins-iMac:~ colin$ sudo mdutil -i on /
/:
Could not set indexing status for volume.
Colins-iMac:~ colin$
what should I do?
Okay... that's weird.
Start with some basics. Open Disk Utility and do the verify disk (like checking the results of fsck). If it passes, then we have to figure something out, but I'm guessing it might fail. If it fails, you can either reboot in single user mode (hold apple-s) and then type in /sbin/fsck -fy (the little text intro will remind you of this command when you get to single user mode), or you can boot off the install DVD and do repair disk.
Start with some basics. Open Disk Utility and do the verify disk (like checking the results of fsck). If it passes, then we have to figure something out, but I'm guessing it might fail. If it fails, you can either reboot in single user mode (hold apple-s) and then type in /sbin/fsck -fy (the little text intro will remind you of this command when you get to single user mode), or you can boot off the install DVD and do repair disk.
Same here -- and there's no correlation between any audio/video programs running either. Restarting doesn't help.
Hmmmm. I dunno what to suggest next. If you do ls -la in the root directory, is there a .Spotlight-V100 file?
Can you draft me the steps? Cos I really dunno how to do it. Thanx!!
Open a terminal window. Type, with each line followed by enter:
cd /
ls -la
You're looking for a line that looks like:
Code:
drw------- 7 root admin 238 Feb 27 2006 .Spotlight-V100Ok, it says this:
drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jun 24 01:09 .
drwxrwxr-t 30 root admin 1122 Jun 24 01:09 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 colin admin 12292 Jun 24 01:55 .DS_Store
drw------- 7 root admin 238 Jul 6 2006 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 2 root admin 68 Dec 25 2005 .Trashes
-rw-r--r-- 1 colin admin 59078 Jan 4 2006 .VolumeIcon.icns.candybarbackup
-rw------- 1 root wheel 327680 Apr 28 14:33 .hotfiles.btree
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 96 Jun 24 01:09 .vol
drwxrwxr-x 56 root admin 1904 Jun 23 22:47 Applications
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 109568 Jun 23 22:52 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 524098 Jun 23 22:47 Desktop DF
drwxrwxr-t 47 root admin 1598 Feb 4 12:48 Library
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jun 24 01:10 Network
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jun 22 23:39 System
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 60 Dec 25 2005 User Guides And Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized
drwxrwxr-t 6 root admin 204 Jul 6 2006 Users
drwxrwxrwt 12 root admin 408 Jun 24 01:10 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Dec 25 2005 automount
drwxr-xr-x 40 root wheel 1360 Jun 22 23:37 bin
drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 Aug 22 2005 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 24 01:09 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Jul 6 2006 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 Jun 24 01:09 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 604072 Jun 24 01:09 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4347816 Jun 15 16:40 mach_kernel
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jun 24 01:09 private
drwxr-xr-x 63 root wheel 2142 Jun 22 23:37 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Jul 6 2006 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Jul 6 2006 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 Jul 6 2006 var -> private/var
any ideas??
Well, that's the file that's supposed to be there, and it has the right permissions. You could try deleting that directory (rm -rf .Spotlight-V100), and then repeating the mdutil etc commands you tried earlier.
oh crap...I was just reading about this on Digg....looks like a real issue. I'm not updating now my Intel Mac now...the PPC updated fine so far...
but popping speakers would be very annoying...
anyone else have this issue?