Hello everyone, You are a wonderful helpful group. So far, I have fixed permissions, installed SmartReporter and done a full back up of my computer. I'm feeling a bit chagrined that I forgot about repairing disk permissions - they were a MESS! and I used to do it on a semi-regular basis. So now I'm in a wait-and-see if that resolved my problem. I do know that a shut down of my computer was likiety-split (spelling?) unlike the long-drawn out process it was before. Is a long time shutting down a symptom of permissions issues? The computer does seem better. Thanks all for your thoughts and advice. I hope others reading this who have Macs will consider doing the maintenance on disk permissions. Annamarie Annamarie Pluhar, M.Div. Pluhar Associates 802.451.1941 802.579.5975 (cell) Helping organizations live their values www.pluharassociates.com Facilitation, training and speaking. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20071013/c03fd78f/attachment-0006.html