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Sep 30, 2011 12:53 PM in response to mudpizeby X423424X,Do you see this if you log into another account?
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Sep 30, 2011 1:07 PM in response to mudpizeby mudpize,No. Just logged into another account and was also able to launch Word etc...Any ideas what to do next? Thanks!
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Sep 30, 2011 1:57 PM in response to mudpizeby mudpize,Also, if I look under the finder Computer, everything for the device sections say SD5, SD7. SD8. These crazy numbers are everywhere.
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Sep 30, 2011 2:05 PM in response to mudpizeby X423424X,No. Just logged into another account and was also able to launch Word etc...Any ideas what to do next? Thanks!
So it is working in other accounts, just not yours. The finder is ok and the problem is just local to your account. It may be a bad plist. There's com.apple.finder.plist in your Preferences directory. You could try removing it but I'm not sure it will fix the problem or not.
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Sep 30, 2011 2:26 PM in response to X423424Xby mudpize,I trashed that file and nothing changed. Here is something on another forum that is just like my issue though no one replied with an answer. I also ran through Disc Utility and fixed all permissions.
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Sep 30, 2011 6:49 PM in response to mudpizeby mudpize,
I am enclosing some screenshots. I still don't have an answer for this. I have run Mac's Disk Utility and Cocktail. All showed corrupt files and noted them as repaired. Still can't open Word, Excel etc.. on my admin user. I think somehow it stems from there. Any ideas? Please check out the screenshots. -
Sep 30, 2011 7:05 PM in response to mudpizeby X423424X,And this only happens with your specific account and no others?
Please post you accounts login items and the contents of the the folder ~/Library/LaunchAgents (LaunchAgents directory in your Library directory).
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Sep 30, 2011 7:30 PM in response to mudpizeby Linc Davis,Please boot in safe mode, log in as yourself, and test. Same problem?
After testing, reboot as usual (not in safe mode.)
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Sep 30, 2011 7:38 PM in response to Linc Davisby X423424X,I assume you are asking him to do this only to get some caches cleared. We already know he has the problem only with his own account.
Could work. But it's strange it looks like it affects only his menus and nothing else.
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Sep 30, 2011 7:55 PM in response to X423424Xby mudpize,I ran through Safe Mode and the issue still exists. It is effecting the menus. Also, I cannot boot Microsoft Office 2004 at all. It won't reopen and says it quit unexpectedly and shows me the details. When I click Reopen, it won't launch, just keeps popping up the screen again.
Yes, both these things only occur with one user. I think the menu items and this must be related.
Here's a
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Sep 30, 2011 8:07 PM in response to mudpizeby X423424X,I ran through Safe Mode and the issue still exists.
Just to be clear, I hope you meant that you booted in safe mode and then rebooted normally before the problem reappeared. Or do you see the bad menus even when booted in safe mode? If so that would immedtely eliminate any possible startup items from the stuff I asked you to list earlier (wasn't sure there are anything suspecious there anyhow which is why I didn't followup on that).
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Sep 30, 2011 8:09 PM in response to X423424Xby mudpize,I saw the bad menus even in safe mode. Then rebooted normally and they were still there.






