mapledell Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 i am having some pretty strange problems. i am currently running 10.4.3, and everything was running great for about 2 weeks. recently i have been having problems writing to the hard drive (i think). here are my symptoms: cannot create new users cannot create new folders or files mail keeps telling me "home folder is full" and forcing me to quit itunes keeps telling me "cannot update intunes library" when i try to download with safari, it gives me "error creating file" when i use camino, if i close the program and try to open it again, it says "another copy of camino is already running" when i try to boot to my install dvd to run disk utility or even reinstall, it just boots right back to tiger usually these things are not a problem for the first 2 or 3 minutes after i boot up, but they come back every time. anyone have any clue what might be my problem? here are my specs: amd 64 newcastle 3200+ (SSE2) msi k8t motherboard 80 gig ata hardrive (system) 2 80 gig sata hardrives (1 empty, other has itunes music) nvidia gforce2 512 mb ram like i said, it was all working perfectly a couple of weeks ago. the only tweaking i have done has been with my boot.plist file trying to get my resolution up to 1280x1064, but that didn't work so i went back to default. thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 have you tried running disk utility, and repairing the permissions for the partition that your OS X install is on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mapledell Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 have you tried running disk utility, and repairing the permissions for the partition that your OS X install is on? yes, i've run disk utility off the install and off the install cd to repair permissions and verify the disk, it hasn't helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mapledell Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 when i repair disk permissions, it seems like it works for a under a minute before it reverts back to it's original behavior. i think maybe the disk permissions it repairs are not sticking. is there a command-line repair permissions command i can use at boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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