Mac OS 9.1 - Help!

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Repair the desktop: Use Techtool Lite or Trash*Desktop (TD may delete Finder comments )to rebuild your desktop w/extensions off. Does a better job than manually & you avoid all the finger gymnatics. You just have to hold down the shift key to shut off extensions.
Restart to turn the extensions back on again & empty the trash.

If you want to rebuild manually, see KB article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=10182 Rebuilding Desktop File and Icon Recovery.



Run Disk First Aid: Boot from your system install cd (the one that originally came w/your comp) while holding down the c key & run Disk First Aid from the Utilities folder. Have DFA repair any errors it finds. If unable to repair you will need to run a 3rd party utility cd.





I am not familiar with Power PC. Do you actually mean Power Mac? If so, until someone more familiar w/that model Mac, cross-post the ethernet problem over in one of the Power Mac Forums.

Nigel-

Calm down. You are asking a 99-year old woman to change the way she works and learn new ways because YOU can't cope. Something is terribly wrong with this picture.

Don Archibald, who is nearing 100,000 points on this OS 9 forum, uses OS 9 exclusively. There is still lots of usefulness in OS 9. It is not identical to Panther, or Tiger, or Leopard, but there is a huge amount that works in similar ways.

Step back from what you are most familiar with and ask the cold-hearted questions that cut through the baloney:
• What does she want to accomplish?
• If it were working properly, Does she have the tools to do that now?

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As far as getting her Internet connection working, the headquarters for that is:
Apple Menu > Control Panels > TCP/IP

It must be set to Ethernet, if that is how she is connecting. If she has a Router, it should connect via DHCP. You MUST close the Control Panel and Save Changes before they take effect. Then force some Internet activity:
• set the Network Date and Time using Date & Time Control Panel
• check for Software Updates using Software Update Control Panel
• Launch a Browser and enter a URL in the Address line.
Then re-examine the IP address in the TCP/IP Control Panel.
169.254.xxx.yyy says you are talking only to yourself and have a fundamental problem like bad cables.
a sensible address like 192.168.0.3 says you are connected, but you may have other problems finding Web sites, such as proper Domain Name Server (DNS) addresses.

Nigel-

My apologies. At first reading, I thought you were the only source of the move toward Mac OS X. I was wrong, and am sorry for jumping to that conclusion.

I see in closer reading (and the clarification you provided) that she has made her own moves toward Mac OS X, and she sees enough benefits \[like iPhoto] that she is willing to change the way she works to get the perceived benefits of Mac OS X.

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If she has a Router configured correctly, and can connect both Macs to the Internet using that Router, then all the pieces are in place for Mac File Sharing. However, if her Router is either:
• Not really a Router at all, -OR-
• An ISP-provided Router that is deliberately "hobbled" (restricted to exactly ONE computer) by her ISP...

... that may explain why the old computer stopped working when the new one came on.

I am not familiar with Power PC.

PowerPC is all processors used by Macs between the original Motorola 680x0 series, and before they moved to Intel. G3 G4 and G5 are all PowerPC (PPC for short). The term comes from IBM who co-developed the technology which was RISC-based (Reduced Instruction Set Chips) - these were much faster potentially than Pentiums of the day, and were supposed to be much more future-proofed.

However, as we all know by now, the Pentium evolved to Dual-Core and then Quad-Core, leaving PPC chips far behind ... though some would say that a G5 running Tiger is one of the most stable configurations that Apple ever used.

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