heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) (06/25/91)
How about some help from you Mac weenies with a weird problem we're having with the IIsi, running 6.0.x. Several days ago, with no warning, and with nobody having done nothing out of the ordinary, about half of the DA's and Fonts got their names changed to garbage strings. Some of the strings contained nonprinting characters, and some of them were several dozen characters long. The DA's and fonts are *apparently* still working, just their names got munged. Nobody had used font/da mover or any other tool that writes to the system file. What could have caused this? When does the system file get written to? Could we have bad ram here? What's the best way to fix it? Thanks in advance... -- --- Vincent Heuring Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Colorado - Boulder heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU
dubach1@husc9.harvard.edu (joev dubach) (06/26/91)
In article <1991Jun24.231059.8882@colorado.edu> heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes: Several days ago, with no warning, and with nobody having done nothing out of the ordinary, about half of the DA's and Fonts got their names changed to garbage strings. Some of the strings contained nonprinting characters, and some of them were several dozen characters long. The DA's and fonts are *apparently* still working, just their names got munged. Nobody had used font/da mover or any other tool that writes to the system file. What could have caused this? When does the system file get written to? Could we have bad ram here? What's the best way to fix it? Thanks in advance... -- --- Vincent Heuring Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Colorado - Boulder heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU Yes, I had this happen on my IIsi (6.0.7 is the only 6.0.x compatible with it, by the way) and my Q & D solution was to reinstall the system and my desk accessories. 6.0.7 was such a great incentive to upgrade to 7.0; thanks for the bugs, Apple-- they were worth it to have 7.0. Joev Dubach -- ---- >>>>>>> <<<<<<< ^^^^^^^ * * || dubach1@husc9.harvard.edu > < < ^ * * || > < < ^^^^^^ * * || > > < < ^ * * || >>>> <<<<<<< ^^^^^^ * ||