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Total Weirdness with new G5?
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Hi,
I got a BRAND NEW G5 about two weeks ago now and ever since it came it's been acting mighty weird. Within about 5 minutes of use, when I tried to empty the trash, instead of having the Finder icon like here:
it just had a random icon of pictures I had downloaded. Not even logging out would change it back so I had to restart. After a bit more of that, I decided I need to clean install. So, I did that, but then shortly afterwards, I scanned in a picture for someone, and OS X decided that my documents folder really wanted to have that picture as its icon. Also, if I'm downloading a file in safari, it often gets a very pixely copy of the Network icon. So I rebooted again and that went away. Then I downloaded SDL to install it. It came in a zip file which for some reason had the developer tools icon, and then I checked my "Computer" Section of the file system and as you can see here so does the network:
Also, when I tried to install SDL, it just flat out wouldn't install SDL.framework into my Library/Frameworks folder, so I thought maybe there were disk permission problems. So, I then tried to repair disk permissions, but it takes about 3 seconds to finish 1/6th of the progress bar, and then stops for 3 hours. It's a 250 Gig MAXTOR.
I'm totally lost. Does anybody have any ideas? Maybe there's something just horrible wrong with my HD? Disk utility won't even finish.
Thanks,
gabe
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Originally posted by Zimwy:
Disk utility won't even finish.
I think you better send it in, that sucks 
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Originally posted by Powaqqatsi:
I think you better send it in, that sucks
Really?  It's not like repairing permissions is supposed to take around 10 hours? (I've only waited for 3 so far.)
gabe
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Originally posted by Zimwy:
Really? It's not like repairing permissions is supposed to take around 10 hours? (I've only waited for 3 so far.)
gabe
No not at all, it takes 10minutes max on my system (a PowerBook 867 with a 40GB 4200rpm drive, so it should be a lot faster on your system anyway).
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Boston / Ithaca
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Occaisionally a couple of my icons will get switched with random pictures, but it returns to normal after a restart.
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