… or was sick. After having my mini for over 2 months this was the first problem that had arisen. It seemed that when I tried to launch Word or any Office application as well as a number of other programs they would crash for some unknown reason. The screenshot can be seen above. After googling for almost an entire night it seemed the only choice was Terminal (like MS-DOS for mac) or re-installing Tiger. I didn’t like the latter so I started with Terminal. It required delving into the unknown, which I did. Time and time again the same error would happen. So I had to reinstall Tiger. This was bad, or so I thought. It is not like Windows. There is an option called “Archive and Install” which keeps your setting and work and just reinstalls Tiger. My applications, games and work are all untouched. I started this early and it finished quite quickly, after about 50 minutes of waiting (well wacthing the Simpsons) it finished and restarted. It did it without pain and effort. To my surprise everything looked as it had before. Except it was running Tiger 10.4.0. So I launched Software Update and it is now downloading all the updates, which can be seen below.
To conclude, although I thought I was in for hell, it went a lot better than all the Windows problems I’ve suffered before. Thanks Apple for making it so easy!
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