Re: Office 2004 crashes--what to do?

Try repairing permissions.

FSCK is strong medicine. But if you don't have a good Utility such as DiskWarrior or TechTool 4. It is a decent alternative.

I do on occasion use it. The thing is to have enough patience to sit through FSCK doing its thing it gives no clues how far along in the test it is. You just have to wait until it finishes and gives a result.

And even then if there is a bad block on the hard Drive FSCK doesn't cure that.

rudysfirst@xxxxxxx wrote:
Phillip,
I'm a little leary of using FSCK. I read some of the Apple knowledge
info and found this:

fsck is a command-line utility that may be able to verify and repair a
disk. If you can successfully start up in Safe Mode or use Disk Utility
while started up from a disc, you don't need to use fsck. However, here
are some situations in which fsck may be necessary.

First of all, I tried Safe Mode when I first began having problems and
was never able to safely start up. I've been able to use Disk Utility
for the OSX installation disk. Yesterday, there all sort of problems
that were diagnosed. However, today when I tried Disk Utility again,
the report showed no problems, and that my OSX volume was OK. But
everything is not OK. I still don't have a Dock nor the privilege to
remove Office 2004.

I also read some information about Disk Warrior and I don't believe
it's compatible with the system I'm using: G3 Beige and OSX 10.3.9. I
fear spending the money for something that won't work.

Phillip Jones wrote:
go on Apple
s website in support area and look up FSCK.

use the appropriare version of the command depending up what version of
OSX you have.

Us have to go into single user mode (which come up a B&W screen unix
looking code showing.

type in hit return , sit and wait until it completes a test cycle.

if it shows up anything as being repaired or any error messages, repeat
until it says everything is okay. This is slightly stronger than Disk
Utility and handles a few more files.

Also you might use Disk Warrior from Alsoft, and /or use Techtool4.x

usual method of test and repair

Disk Utility - Repair Permissions
Disk Utility - Repair Disk
fsck
YASU (can be used in place of Disk Utility in some cases. It does Cron
Tasks at times you desire as opposed to leaving it up to Computer.)
DiskWarrior
TechTool

Erase Drive and reload after backing up your Data.

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