Re: "Find" function always ZERO results (Panther Mac Mini)

In article <1125777583.716693.135330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<k9660r@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was over at a friends house today and although he had told me before
> that his Find function (command F) doesn't perform, I was doubtful of
> his claims.
>
> He bought a Mac Mini about 4 months ago loaded with Panther. Everything
> else seems to work flawlessly. Items he searches for with the Finders
> "Find" function comes back with ZERO results.
>
> As a test, we would enter files or folder names we were staring at
> right on his desktop or items within a folder. Regardless of what or
> where we did the searches, there were ZERO results even when we were
> staring at the file.
>
> I am also running Panther (latest version) but have never had this
> problem.
> Any ideas out there?

Boot from your DiskWarrior CD and warry the Mini's disk. Something is
probably whacked in the directories.

--
Jerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>

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