[Weezer]

So I was playing Jedi Knight 2 and my autosave wasn't working. I trashed the pref file and started it back up, still didnt work. I did a restard, and all of a sudden everything is at default. My dock is loaded with default programs, positioned at the bottom, none of my preferences are set correctly, wtf! The only thing I've chagned recently is playing the game, as well as installing Menu Meters. I'm about to try to run a bootcd with diskwarrior 3 on it to see what it finds, but I've never been able to actually get a bootcd created image to work (only tried on an imac dv though, never my 933). Anyone have any thoughts?

edit: btw, I still have all of my files, just everything is reverted to default.

[philzilla]

sounds like your startup partition got full. that's usually the cause of it. how much space you got left on that thing?

[Weezer]

Originally posted by philzilla:
sounds like your startup partition got full. that's usually the cause of it. how much space you got left on that thing?

~500 megs

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Weezer:
~500 megs

there ya go then. that's what it was. you should have a minimum of 500Mb-1Gb, whenever possible, when the machine boots. you're going to be creating swapfiles that will eat into that, so the more the merrier. when you hit about 200Mb free space, that's when the prefs go funky, and Finder revert to default. you lose no data, but it's a PITA to fix things.

now you should go burn/delete some stuff

[Weezer]

*sigh* thanks. So I cleared off 3 gigs quickly, ran disk warrior, but it says I dont have 107 continuous megs free, so I shouldnt replace the directory. Does taht mean that my HD is pretty fragmented and there arnt 107 solid megs free?

[philzilla]

it's been a long time since i ran DW, but that sounds about right (maybe someone else can clarify?)

v3.0 is out now, FYI