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- From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
- Subject: Re: startup items not working...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.225900.21962@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- References: <1992Dec16.153108.12098@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:59:00 GMT
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- ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (wood,christopher) writes:
- : My office-mates' macintosh (Mac IIci, 20 MB RAM, 7.0.1 with tuneup,
- : extension manager and bunches of other inits, internal and external hard
- : drives with lots of free space, Supermac 21" color monitor and board)
- : has suddenly developed a problem I've never seen before: None of the
- : startup items start up. All the rest of the inits work. We've
- : reinstalled the software from locked floppies, scanned with
- : disinfectant, deleted the startup items folder and restarted, and put
- : aliases back in the newly recreated folder. I've run out of ideas...
- :
- : The only thing odd is that he's starting up from an external HD (A
- : micronet 240 MB, with two low-level partitions.) The problem started
- : after his internal HD crashed; we reformatted, and restored from
- : backups, but now no startup items...
- :
- : Has this happened to anyone before? How did you fix it?
- :
-
- The only time I have seen something like this, it turned out that there was
- a second system folder on another partition. They were not running the system
- that they thought they were.
-
- I'd check the startup device (click once on the drive icon in the top right
- corner of the screen and do a get info) and make sure that only one system
- file exists on that device.
-
- Otherwise, I am as lost as you.
-
- Greg.
-
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