"I’m a bit afraid to leave off a virus protection program though. Anybody have recommendations?"
most likely you don't need one. I have never used one on a mac since 1983. Just practice safe computing. -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 3:05 PM William Prothero via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Problem solved, but first: > I found that BitDefender kept deleting the “Safe Application” setting for > “Livecode Business 9.0.2”, so it blocked writing to the Devo Prefs file. > The OS wouldn’t let me delete the library files associated with > BitDefender. I also found that there were un-fixable errors in my boot > drive, which is an SSD drive. I wanted to delete all anti-virus files and > CleanMyMac, which contained both version 3 and X. I also needed to deal > with the boot drive disc errors, which DiskUtility couldn’t fix. I was > going to have to completely erase and reformat the boot drive. Fortunately, > my boot drive was still functioning mostly normally. > > First I booted my computer from an external drive that I had created a > couple of weeks ago using SuperDuper. Then I deleted all Library files > related to BitDefender and CleanMyMac. I think I got all of them, but may > have missed something. > > Next I created a disc image big enough to hold all of my boot drive > content (on an external drive), so I could restore it after reformatting. I > used SuperDuper to copy my boot drive content to the disc image. Then I > reformatted my original boot drive and after that, used SuperDuper to copy > the disc image contents back to my original boot drive. > > I checked that the Devo prefs were being updated correctly, and yes, they > were. Problem solved. > > I’m a bit afraid to leave off a virus protection program though. Anybody > have recommendations? > > Best, > Bill > > > > On Feb 10, 2019, at 6:55 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Guess I waited until the right time to go from 10.12 to 10.14 :grin: > > I’ll be doing that upgrade in the next couple weeks. > > > > Thanks, > > Brian > > On Feb 10, 2019, 7:49 AM -0500, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via > use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > >> Little story: Yesterday, early the morning, I was on 10.4.2. "Sadly" I > thought Navigator would not save preferences. Went back to work, thinking > the IDE has lost some globals, or messages, it crashes for me all the time > now, at least once a day. No point sending in reports, Panos says "cannot > reproduce..." > >> > >> Besides, two other programs unrelated, will suddenly "wink out" I say > that, because, you may be doing something else, the application is not > experiencing any "user operations". Suddenly it crashes and you get a crash > report. It's as if a gremlin in the background is issuing a "Kill process." > Although it also happens in the IDE, especially when dragging a control > from the tool bar onto a stack. I always save, hold my breath now when > create a button, drag it the tools pallet "Oh no! the IDE crashed, > again...sigh" Now, that seems unrelated... but > >> > >> Not paying much attention update notices. Busy getting work done. I > hard to reboot. Ha! big update got installed. OS X 10.4.3 > >> > >> Now, this morning Navigator prefs are saved.... Yay! Having done > nothing else, one is tempted to say, it was a "mysterious OS thing" > >> > >> I never had time to investigate... Rick: I'll try Avast > >> > >> BR > >> > >> Bill wrote: So I used diskutility to repair the system drive, then > updated the os to 10.14.3. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
