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Hi,
When I change the content of Finders sidebar the changes I make disappears after a reboot. Doesn't that indicate something wrong??

Personally I have not enabled the root account and have no intention of ever doing so. I think the problem is really that the .DS_Store file is not being rewritten, perhaps because of the permissions. I would simply remove the .DS_Store file from the affected folders and then arrange those folders as you want them to be and close the folders. This will create a new .DS_Store file with new settings for the folders. As the .DS_Store files are invisible you will either have to use one of the many utilities that allow you to show invisible files or use the Terminal remove command. If the problem is the permissions you may have to authenticate to remove the files, or use a sudo remove command.
Francine
Francine
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Mike Maksim wrote:
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Hello Jorge,
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http://digital.ni.com/softlib.nsf/webcategories/85256410006C055586256BBB002C0D10?opendocument&node=1...
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History:
I had an iMac G4 800 (OSX 4.11) connected to an Intel iMac (White Model OSX 7.5) via firewire 400 and had shared my internet from the intel mac to the G4 through the firewire as the G4 doesn't have wifi.
I had wanted to transfer files from the intel mac to the G4.
I proceeded to transfer files over the firewire.
all the files where being transferred to the desktop
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Computer froze.
What I've done:
After realizing that the computer was frozen I did a hard shutdown. Unplugged the firewire and restarted the computer.
Computer booted fine, but the finder was unresponsive.
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Did a force quit. Finder would quit no problem and restart, but after the restart of the finder it would resume the process that it was stuck in. None of the icons would show on the desktop. CPU usage was running at 60% and memory would increase slowly until all available was used ( I have 1GB of memory)
Did a hard shut down and left it over night, rebooted and no change.
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Went into terminal and did a "killall Finder"
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a new system folder, then update that to the last step (via Combo update) and see what
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{A full system clone-copy on external FW enclosure would be a means to restore the Mac.
Also that's a better way to make a backup since it would be a complete one of everything.}
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