Re: Digital Exorcism
Re: Digital Exorcism
- Subject: Re: Digital Exorcism
- From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:04:21 -0800
My most recent and complete attempt to drive out the demons went
as follows:
Sounds like you're doing the right thing, I'd add a pass through Disk
First Aid somewhere toward the beginning.
one big benefit from documenting
such an incremental clean-install is you begin to identify large groups
of files that were previously mysteries.
What I do is put the System Folder in list view, select all of its items
and folders, command-right arrow to twist all the folders open, then
select all again and give everything a certain label color, say light
blue. Now all the standard system installed extensions, control panels,
profiles, and system folder items are light blue. Then run the
application installer and reboot if needed. Go back and look at the
system folder in list view again, go to View Options and turn on the
Label field, and sort by Label. Aha, everything that got installed into
the system by the app is not labeled, real obvious. Make a folder in
the installed app's main folder called something like "for System
Folder", and drag a copy of each newly installed extension in there,
sorted into folders. So you'd have "for System Folder/extensions", "for
System Folder/profiles", "for System Folder/system folder", etc. That
way you know what pieces go with that app, and you can do a
pseudo-install just by dragging the items into the right places. When
you do a pseudo-install and there's already an item installed with the
same name, just use the newer one, the one with the larger version
number. Naturally running the app's installer is still the preferred
way to do an install, because you might have missed something in
collecting all the pieces.
Mind you, all this work comes after running SystemWorks, TechTool, and
MacTestPro for their extended and extensive hardware, software, and
virus
tests.
Sounds like you're being thorough. Doesn't TechTool have a repeat mode,
in which it keeps looping the tests until you quit? That's good for
finding intermittent hardware problems.
My office temperature varies widely... so I suppose the computer
fan could go from sucking 80 degree air to 60 or less in a moment.
As long as the heat sink is attached correctly, the fan if any works,
and the vents aren't blocked, I wouldn't worry about that. If you had
the machine sitting on a heat riser set into the floor, that would be
bad.
how might this excess room temperature
affect the qualities of scans from my Imacon?
Maybe somebody else can answer that?
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John
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