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Authored by: cparnot on Nov 11, '03 11:53:17PM

I am not saying that deleting those cache files will never work, but it can also make things worse. Here comes another example to add to the various comments of this thread...

I had that problem of broken drag-and-drop (no problem with copy and paste), and no process 'coreservicesd' running (but process 'pbs' all right, so copy and paste definitely seems to be a separate problem).

I did just what is said here, ie delete the cache files described in this post, thinking that Cache files are anyway meant to be deleted at some point, right?

Oups... After restarting, I got that little black wheel spinning forever (I waited at least 15 minutes). After force-rebooting on my OS 9 partition, I had a very nasty message, something like: "cannot mount the 'OS X' partition. Do you want to initialize your disk?" NO!!! I was not able to get it back with the Disk Utility on the Jaguar CD. Finally, Norton Was able to fix the Catalog Tree stuff, whatever that is. At least, I could read and back up the partition.

The drag-and-drop was not fixed, though. However, after running the X.2.8 combo installation (why did not I do that in the first place!!), the computer was back to its normal behavior. Pfou...

Conclusion: don't touch those Cache file without great caution; they might sometimes be corrupted but in other cases, they might actually be helping when something else is wrong.
(this is my interpretation)

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charles



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