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    From roch_art00@roch_art00@hotmail.com (Pell) to comp.sys.mac.system on Thursday, July 24, 2003 21:26:10
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    I have a problem I've never seen before on a Mac.

    Running OS X 10.2.6 right now but this problems also occurs with other
    versions of 10.2.

    I am not able to click and drag icons on my computer's desktop. It is
    as if there is some kind of system glitch or something. I am not able
    to select a folder and drag the item anywhere (ie. the dock, another
    folder on the harddrive, etc.) This is obviously a pain because I
    can't open items by dragging them and I can't organize my computer as
    I like.

    Does anyone have ideas of how to fix this problem? I have already
    tried to run the Disk Utility to repair permissions and repair disk
    via Disk First Aid. I have also reiinstalled system 10.x.2 software
    from disks and downloaded & installed upgrades 10.2.5 & 10.2.6. I
    have also restarted the computer, holding down the keys (command,
    option, shift, p, r) which was a system 9 startup code to zap the
    pram.

    any ideas??

    -Pell
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  • From Kevin McMurtrie@mcmurtri@sonic.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Friday, July 25, 2003 10:05:05
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <c133375d.0307242026.6fe6bfe@posting.google.com>,
    roch_art00@hotmail.com (Pell) wrote:

    I have a problem I've never seen before on a Mac.

    Running OS X 10.2.6 right now but this problems also occurs with other >versions of 10.2.

    I am not able to click and drag icons on my computer's desktop. It is
    as if there is some kind of system glitch or something. I am not able
    to select a folder and drag the item anywhere (ie. the dock, another
    folder on the harddrive, etc.) This is obviously a pain because I
    can't open items by dragging them and I can't organize my computer as
    I like.

    Does anyone have ideas of how to fix this problem? I have already
    tried to run the Disk Utility to repair permissions and repair disk
    via Disk First Aid. I have also reiinstalled system 10.x.2 software
    from disks and downloaded & installed upgrades 10.2.5 & 10.2.6. I
    have also restarted the computer, holding down the keys (command,
    option, shift, p, r) which was a system 9 startup code to zap the
    pram.

    any ideas??

    -Pell


    "coreservicesd" is probably crashing.

    There's some magic file that you have to delete. Try googling for
    random suggestions. Digging through Apple's mess of scattered
    preference files is a nightmare.
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