Am 18.12.2005 um 11:55 schrieb Colin Shapiro: >> error message "Error reading/writing file info.emagic.sounddiver: >> unknown system error..". >> I searched my HD, but there is indeed no such file >> "info.emagic.sounddiver". According to the Readme PDF that came with >> the Public Beta there should be one: >> "...these are always located under ff/Library/Preferences/ >> info.emagic.sounddiver" (first page). Unfortunately I really don't >> know if there was such a file on my HD when SoundDiver still ran >> flawlessly. > > Hi Ingo, > > I have a few suggestions. > Spotlight defines certain areas as private and does not search there > (unless this is fixed in 10.4.3 - but it seems not), so you need to > manually go to these locations to check for the files. > > Next, your permissions may have changed, so that you are no longer > able to write to these files. Get info and check the files > themselves, and also the enclosing folder(s) - they must not be read > only. (That's probably why you get the error message) > > If the pref files have been removed somehow by the OS update, you > could always drag the old pref file back in from your backup (you did > backup first....?) > > Hope this helps Hi Colin, thanks for your help. It seems my computer has a serious problem. The harddisk utility reports an error ("wrong key length" - whatever this means) which it cannot repair. Other programs like Spark LE crash when launched. Funny, Apple Mail and Safari still work fine. I still can't find SoundDiver's nor Logic's Preferences files. Does the "ff" mentioned in the file path above mean the same as the "~", i.e. home directory, or is there actually a folder named "ff"? There's no such folder on my HD. No, I haven't done any backups before updating to 10.4.3, but guess what I'm doing right now... ;-) Ingo