Ah, frig. It's a big old half-dome years-old iMac that weighs a ton. I've taken it to the Genius Bar twice in the last couple of months, and it's a loathsome task.
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
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JZ - Aug 30, 2008 8:30:30 am PDT #7541 of 25501
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Consuela - Aug 30, 2008 8:38:19 am PDT #7542 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
is back up all your data and then reinstall XP and all the other programs onto a cleaned out hard disk.
Oh, lord. There goes my weekend.
Theodosia - Aug 30, 2008 9:41:43 am PDT #7543 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Consuela, sometimes time equals money -- you might well be better off getting a nice new laptop instead, especially because prices have come seriously down in the last 3 years. (FWIW, I've been really impressed with HP's customer support on my desktop machine.)
Consuela - Aug 30, 2008 11:53:21 am PDT #7544 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, it seems silly to not even TRY to do this. Got a pointer for some resources that will help me reinstall XP?
Theodosia - Aug 30, 2008 12:24:45 pm PDT #7545 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sorry, I'd be as much at sea as you are!
Wiping a hard disk and reinstalling XP is something that a small local computer repair shop should be able to do, though.
DCJensen - Aug 30, 2008 12:50:22 pm PDT #7546 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
JZ, have you rebooted?
Also, try running Disk Utility and repair permissions, and then do a repair disk.
JZ - Aug 30, 2008 1:07:36 pm PDT #7547 of 25501
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yup, yup, yup, did all those before posting the first plea for help, Daniel. Hopefully the Apple store will be open on Labor Day, with at least one or two geniuses on hand at the bar, because all my "This usually works" workarounds aren't.
Gris - Aug 30, 2008 4:26:21 pm PDT #7548 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Can you successfully install any other programs? Maybe try installing Thunderbird, since it probably has a similar install procedure - you can always uninstall it later. It sounds like something in the install process itself is breaking, not connected to Firefox directly.
DCJensen - Aug 30, 2008 5:14:39 pm PDT #7549 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
t sounds like something in the install process itself is breaking, not connected to Firefox directly.
Technically the install/uninstall process on a Mac is
1. download disk image
2. Expand disk image
3. drag firefox to the extension folder.
To uninstall, drag Firefox to the trash.
JZ, do you have stuffit expander? I could make a zip file of the firefox.app and you could unzip it.
DCJensen - Aug 30, 2008 5:15:20 pm PDT #7550 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Actually, Macs should unzip without stuffit now, IIRC.