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Q: my apple ibook g3 will not let me change the date...it shows the region to change but not the calender or the clock, my apple ibook g3 will not let me change the date...it shows the region to change but not the calender or the clock

i am trying to change the date ......but when I go into time settings it lets me change the region, but does not show the calender or the clock when I click on the tabs..............also it shows no users in user accounts.................

iBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11), apple ibook g3

Posted on Jan 7, 2014 4:18 PM

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  • by K Shaffer,

    K Shaffer K Shaffer Jan 9, 2014 1:48 PM in response to melsmb2013
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    Jan 9, 2014 1:48 PM in response to melsmb2013

    There may be some kind of corruption of the system behind this kind of issue, or if you have a suitable disk utility on CD or acceptable media, you may try & see if you can attempt a repair of the drive.

     

    Have you tried 'safeboot' where you hold the shift key down on startup, then wait for a desktop to load, that can take awhile; then run Disk Utiltiy, repair disk permissions. And maybe check disk. Restart normal, after.

     

    Do you have a backup of your created files from the computer on an external hard drive? If so, you may consider the option to use the install discs to reinstall the operating system from scratch; be sure to also think about the probability of hard disk drive failure due to wear and age, as part of the symptom.

     

    Had you tried booting from the OS X install disc and using the available Disk Utility from the menu options in the Installer window's header? To repair disk permissions, you can do without using the install disc option, but to repair disk you'd need to boot from the install disc and skip the installer; use the header options in menus.

     

    Tiger is generally about the best OS X that Apple produced, however some said OS 9.2.2 could have gone on for awhile longer, since it was getting refined. Some years on down the road, others may be seen as such.

     

    There may be simple matter to try, such as 'rebuild desktop' or restart in Mac OS 9.2 and then go back and restart in OS X Tiger. If the computer still dual-boots, as that era did, you may have more options. However some OS 9 utilities (& third party ones) can do things to OS X that aren't pretty.

     

    So when the issue is OS X user accounts or system problems, you may need to boot from the install disc to try & use that version of Disk Utility, first aid, to repair disk permissions, and maybe repair disk. Sometimes issues arise from there being too little free space in the computer's hard disk drive, so the OS X suffers. At times, the system may become corrupted if the data gets overwritten by other content files, by accident. A backup of your stuff, done in advance, can help.

     

    Hard to say what the exact issue or answer is without hands-on, and hunting the problem by trial & error.

     

    Hopefully you can resolve this without much fuss.

    Good luck & happy computing!