I have a partitioned drive on my Mac Pro, one drive had Snow Leopard installed and the other one Tiger.I was having problems with QT on Snow Leopard so I decided to install Snow Leopard on the Tiger partition,which was a backup I no longer really used, and use that while I fixed the problem on the original SL partition.
The SL now on the old Tiger partition works just fine, QT included.Because I thought there must have been a corrupt file on the original QT, which I couldn't find, I dumped all the system files on that partition.I then copied all the system files from the new SL to the old SL partition and re-installed SL from the disc.Everything works now except for my administration password which I need for some fine tuning.I have tried changing it with the installer CD which looks like a simple process but nothing works by doing that.I can't change it with my keychain utility because I need the working password to make the changes.So I am going in circles here and I am desperate.
(I tried to install the latest update combo for SL which is over a GIG in size,but it took 13 hours and then wouldn't mount.I'm not sure this would help and I am reluctant to try it again just yet).
Any suggestions or advise would be appreciated.
Thanks
Limey
The SL now on the old Tiger partition works just fine, QT included.Because I thought there must have been a corrupt file on the original QT, which I couldn't find, I dumped all the system files on that partition.I then copied all the system files from the new SL to the old SL partition and re-installed SL from the disc.Everything works now except for my administration password which I need for some fine tuning.I have tried changing it with the installer CD which looks like a simple process but nothing works by doing that.I can't change it with my keychain utility because I need the working password to make the changes.So I am going in circles here and I am desperate.
(I tried to install the latest update combo for SL which is over a GIG in size,but it took 13 hours and then wouldn't mount.I'm not sure this would help and I am reluctant to try it again just yet).
Any suggestions or advise would be appreciated.
Thanks
Limey