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#1 User is offline   PeterG Icon

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Posted 11 May 2005 - 01:54 PM

Thanks first, it's appreciated to ALL.
This has happened a few times.
I've gone into the finder hit HELP but it doesn't open the page.
I've then gone to HD, Home, User- looked for apple help and come up with 3 files,
com.apple.help.plist
com.apple.helpui.plist
com.apple.helpviewer.plist
I trashed them, quit everything and restarted. Everything then worked just like it should.
My question is: because this has come back is there more I should or could do and am I doing the correct thing?
Thanks again,
Peter
iMac, 10.3.9, 800, 768
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Posted 11 May 2005 - 03:18 PM

Peter,
You are doing the correct thing. Mac OS X help sucks in my opinion. Run OnyX on a regular basis to run your basic utilities such as repair permissions, but it also has an option to Reset Help. Basically deletes the files you listed above.
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Posted 11 May 2005 - 05:18 PM

Thanks Frisco for your time. I'll look into it.
Peter
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