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No Media Key, Printer Driver or Anti-Virus After Re-Install
I had a few kernel panics and have archived and re-installed OS X. Now I cannot open the CD-tray with my media key. Worse my printer doesn’t show up afterwhere nor does Norton Anti-Virus even though it is in the drive.
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6 Replies
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Chris,
Just go to Macally to get the latest drivers for your Keyboard, you don’t have to open your tray to do that.
Not sure why your printer disappeared, but I’ve deleted and added printers a lot to get them to work again. It’s fairly straight forward thru the OSX.
Can’t help with Norton…it’s pretty much dead on the Mac side.Good Luck
Todd at UCSB
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… I’m thinking maybe I should just do a clean re-install. But having never done more than an archive and install (which only seems to have made matters worse) I am wondering where to find my IE 5.2 Favorites, Safari Favorites and Internet settings to backup for afterwards. Any ideas?
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Basically, everything’s in your User directory.
IE Favorites ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/Favorites.html
Safari ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
Various “Internet” settings in ~/Library/Preferences as different .plist files—
Chuck Reti
VIdeo Editor
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Chris,
As Chuck listed. The files are pretty small. Save them to a flash drive or CD. Then do your clean install, and before you open Safari, IE, etc, place the files into the same directory, and you should be good to go. I did the same thing when switching computers, worked out fine.Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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…are the best. Five years without a crash so I never bothered to get these things down. Guess I was living on borrowed time. Oh well. Here goes.
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Everything works now. Thanks
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