erich@crash.cts.com (Eric Hicks) (03/23/91)
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this is the correct group to post this question to, so please
bear with me... 8) I've been having a very strange problem over the last
couple of days that perhaps someone can shed some light upon. I'm currently
running a Mac Plus (platinum) with 4 megs of RAM, and system 6.0.5. I've got
a 65meg external hard drive. The inits I generally run are After Dark 2.0t,
MacsBug (not really an init, I know) version 6.0 or 6.1 (I'm not sure which),
and the Disinfectant 2.4 init. I used to run GateKeeper and GateKeeper Aid
as well as SuperClock sometimes. Anyway, here's the problem. I installed
Thunder 7 on Tuesday night, (the interactive spell checker init) and,
upon restarting the machine, the After Dark Init had an 'x' through it. I
figured it was an init incomplatibility. I removed Thunder, but After Dark
still had the 'x'. Gads, I thought. Thunder's corrupted After Dark. So I
reinstalled After Dark from my LOCKED ORIGINAL floppy. Still had the 'x'.
At this point I started to suspect corrupt system software. So I reinstalled
system 6.0.5 from locked original floppies using the installer. You guessed
it, AD still had the 'x'. I also noticed that when I would go into Excel 2.2
and choose the file menu, the entire screen would go completely white until
I released the mouse button. Also the menu item font wasn't always Chicago!
Sometimes Geneva, sometimes some other font that I didn't recognize. Since
reinstalling the system software didn't fix it, I figured that it must be
low level corruption. So I booted from floppy, dragged the hard drive system
folder to the trash, restarted, and reinstalled system software. This seemed
to clear up the problem. However, now I notice some of my programs are
behaving differently. My copy of ResEdit 2.1, which formerly could access
Finder resources from MultiFinder, suddenly can't. Was ResEdit behaving
correctly before, or now? Also Font/DA Mover 3.8 suddenly has problems
trying to copy more than about 400k of fonts into the system file under
MultiFinder. This wouldn't alarm me, except that it used to not have the
problem... Also, my roommate is a Systems Administrator of Macs locally.
He's noticed the problem on his machines as well. The only common denominator
we've been able to find is System 6.0.5, Mac pluses, and a DA called
TouchBase that we both bought at MacWorld SF. Any suggestions? Are there
any known incompatibilities between 6.0.5 and Pluses? Perhaps I should
go back to 6.0.3. It seems to be the last version that worked correctly
on a Plus. (I had BIG problems with 6.0.4) I don't even want to think about
6.0.7! 8) Anyway, any ideas would be appreciated. If I find out anything
earth-shattering, I'll post it to the net so that all may see... By the way,
does Apple read this group? Perhaps they would know what happened... Thanks
in advance, and sorry about the length, I endeavored to be complete...
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