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OSX 10.5.8- cannot change date and time. Have changed pram battery, still have spinning rainbow dot.

I have an older Powermac G5 dual PPC processor with OSX 5.8 (Leopard) on it. I cannot change the date and time, all I get is the spinning rainbow disc and the prefs have to be shut down. Does anyone know how to get this back on track? Thanks in advance!

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), M9747LL/A tower, PPC dual processor

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 4:43 PM

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Oct 24, 2013 4:56 PM in response to Gary Rowles

Hi Gary, might try this...


First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.


Then move these files to the Desktop for now...


/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist


/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist


/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist


/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist


Reboot & test.


PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

Oct 26, 2013 9:39 PM in response to BDAqua

Did what you said, there is no little plus icon anywhere. There is something weird here. The area to the right with the user name and enable parental controls is grayed out. There is a guest account - sharing only listed but I cannot access it. I've never had multiple accounts on any of my rigs, from the mid '80s. (Still have my Color Classic) so this is all new. Thanks for your patience.

Logged off and back on, the date is correct, but the time zone is CMT and it is grayed out.Set time automatically is grayed out, and revert and save are grayed out. Just tried to set the clock, hit save and it froze on save.3 fingered salute, here we are. Gotta be something in there - - -;)

Oct 26, 2013 10:51 PM in response to Gary Rowles

Let''s try a new admin account...


Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...


http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/


Admin Hack...


http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4


Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.

Oct 28, 2013 7:57 PM in response to BDAqua

Removed the file to the desktop/copy. Deleted the file, required authentication.

Rebooted, still the same in D&T pref. Moved the file back (authenticate) and just rebooted.


Still cannot adjust the time or date, although it is closer - exactly 8 hours ahead.


Those first 4 plist files are still on my desktop, have been replaced. Can I trash them?

OSX 10.5.8- cannot change date and time. Have changed pram battery, still have spinning rainbow dot.

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