Panther going wierd, will Tiger Help?

[yogi477]

Hi everyone,

Recently, and ever increasingly things have been going bad with my Powerbook running Panther. Programs will unexpectedly quit, especially Safari, for no reason but then be fine after a restart then go again. There seems to be no pattern as to what is unstable, it seems to just be everything so I figure it must be the OS.
I also get things like 'localized string not found' as contextual menu items in Safari instead of things like Open Image in New Window. Is there any way I can make sure that Tiger will solve these issues? I have already done permission repair and maintainance scripts as well as fsck is there anything else to try?
Thanks in advance for your help
Ryan

 

[BornAgainMac]

I have 2 icons that are weird and some Microsoft program that starts up and crashes. I am just going to backup my data and do a fresh install of Tiger. Your Safari might be fixed by making a backup of your prefs and deleting them. See if the problem goes away. Also you can create a new user account and see if any of those problems remain. This will confirm it is a preference issue and not a system wide problem.

I actually look forward to doing a fresh install. It's like giving your Mac a bath. Everything is clean.

 

[BornAgainMac]

One more thought. It might be bad memory...

 

[yogi477]

So if I do a fresh install does that not mean I will lose my data?

 

[jim.]

So if I do a fresh install does that not mean I will lose my data?

If you backup, you won't lose data. But generally, yes, when you format a drive it makes it so that the OS will not see the data.

Jim

 

[yogi477]

So I would have to do a fresh install to fix this and that would mean erasing the drive? Is there any other way?

 

[live4ever]

If you are running low on space strange things start to happen. Try to keep at least 10% free.

Boot from the install DVD and repair permissions - this allows some more system files to be corrected.