Having files on desktop is a vulnerability?

This has happened to me twice as well since upgrading to 10.4.5. For me, the Finder begins to crash once every second or so. It's impossible to do anything without a hard reset. M…

Hmm. This happened to me once upon a time (running 10.3.0). Apple had me do an archive & install. I don't know what the problem was but that fixed it.

Post the crash log. It might help...

I'm almost 100% certain that it's caused by a corrupted font. Try logging in as a different user - if that works OK then it's a font that's in /Users/yourusername/Library/Fonts, o…

Incidentally, someone posted a tip at MacOSXhints.com which was about the exact same issue (not the OP was it?). Basically it turned out to be a problem file on the desktop but the…

Thanks for the link, JKT. Lately I've been using the desktop more for saving text clippings, so those could be the culprit. Clearly, it's still a serious OS X issue though, and I'v…

You will have to provide a lot more information. What Mac are you using, and what OS version? What sorts of files are you trying to download, and from where? And more informatio…

I have a Powerbook G4 Processor 1.33Ghz Memory 768MB DDR SDRAM MacOS X ver. 10.4.5 Before the blockage I could do any type of download but now I just can download the files com…

Did you by any chance download and install a demo of a program called "SpeedDownload"? When the demo expires it prevents downloading altogether until you properly uninstall the pro…

I think I downloaded it but I uninstalled properly is there any missing file that I should look for it

Recently I manage to find some missing files of speed and I erased it and everything is normal now thanks you...

The creators of Speed Download should be shot.

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Dig out your OS X install DVD and do an Archive and Install. Might be a bit of overkill, but it'll work, and will be minimally disruptive to your installed documents/applications.

My Help Viewer does that intermittently. I just checked it by launching Mac Help in the Finder's Help menu and, sure enough, blank window. I clicked over to Safari and launched its…

Apple's Knowledge Base has an article on this. You need to trash the cache, basically. Do a search over there and you'll find it. Tom

By help viewer, do you mean the application-specific help files? (Say, for example, if I go under "help" in the menu bar, I'd get "safari help" right now, b/c I'm in safari.) I ha…

The link the OP posted lists that fix as one of the suggestions so evidently it hasn't worked in this instance (and fwiw, yes, it is far too common an issue, grrr).

I've tried all the methods describe in the link above but nothing seems to work. The main OS help viewer doesn't show anything, nor do any of the applications. I don't use it that …

If you need something prior to the archive and install, don't forget that Help Viewer is essentially a browser. All help files are html and if you look in your /Library/Documentati…

I just tried opening the individual help files in the /library/documentation folder and can't do it with Safari. Nothing comes up and the Safari window is empty too, just like the …

Oops, my bad - those .help files are actually packages - you have to Show Package Contents and locate the index pages in the Resources folder.

So I did that and found that I when I tried to open macHelp.html I got a blank page, while opening the individual html documents in the other folders work. I'd assume the machelp.h…

I extracted the help files from the install DVD and just replaced them on my powerbook and it worked! So strange given that I used Pacifist's option to install before and it didn't…