Hello,
1.) We’re using several G4s running OS 9.0 in our graphics department.
Recently they started crashing when users tried to change printers and other settings using the control strip (produces a system error -10 and must restart). They can workaround this using Chooser but it still seems odd, especially since I reinstalled several months ago. Several other oddball things happen. Some can be replicated and some cannot. I’ve treid using Norton Utilities in the hopes that it would help, and it did to a point, but these things still keep coming up. Quark and Photoshop are being used heavily on them. Does anyone no what these weird errors can be attributed to?
Will an upgrade to OS 9.1 or 9.2 give me any additional stability?

2.) Finder crashes every time it looks for a shared volume on the network if it’s unavailable, leaving no choice but to force quit? Is there anyway to erase it’s preferences or disable this from happening?

I’m a MacNewbie and any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

I believe your problems may be caused by a couple of corrupted preference files. The fix is easy, just throw the bad files away. New ones will automatically be generated when the system tries to use them next.

The files are named “AppleShare Prep” and “AppleTalk Preferences.”
They are in the preferences folder that resides in your system folder. (If you can’t find it just search for the “preferences” folder with Sherlock.)

Let me know if this helps.

-Dan