[Mendy Grauman]

I am getting a couple of error messages when i boot up the machine.
something about an non secure startup item.
There are 2 that i get everytime that i boot up.
the one is for netvault, and the other is for Episode (a telestream product used for encoding)

i have also been having glitches with my DVD drive. It does not seem to be writing discs in finder at all. Whenever i try i get an error telling me that there is too much data to fit onto the disc no matter how little data i try to burn. i thought it was just an issue with finder, but then yesterday i tried to burn a disc using DVD studio pro, and as soon as i inserted a new disc the software crashed,. it happened a few times. it looks like i might need to format my hard drive and start over, but i would really like to avoid this if i can.

[Mendy Grauman]

Thanks guys
Much appreciated

I have had no problems accessing those other drives since i reinstalled the OS..
but i didnt do a fresh install.
and i am still getting lots of weird glitches on my system drive.

when i try verify my permissions it comes up with pages of errors, and then i repair them. but when i try verify again those errors are all still there. and there are programs that arent working right..

is there any way to restore things to how they should be? or is it just safer to format the systems drive and do a fresh install. i would rather try avoid doing that because of all the stuff i would need to spend time reinstalling and updating

[Mendy Grauman]

Thanks.

I did a reinstall….
once that was done i still had the same problems, but then i tried again to change the privileges from custom to read and write
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it seems to have worked…. im running a permissions repair again. but for now most of it seems to be sorted out.

thanks for your response…
if it gives me any more hassles i will try enabling root

Much appreciated!