OS X Forums Today: ATM needed for OS X?; "File sharing could not be enabled"; Moving swapfile; more
OS X Forums Today: ATM needed for OS X?; "File sharing could not be enabled"; Moving swapfile; more
File sharing could not be enabled Mark Tully reports getting the "File Sharing could not be enabled" message in Mac OS 9.1, but only after installing Mac OS X on a separate partition. In fact, the message went away if he unmounted the OS X partition. Coincidentally, Earl Kletsky recently informed us of the same symptom. This MacFixIt Forums thread (file sharing can not be enabled) offers potential solutions (the prime one was to copy the invisible AppleShare PDS file to the OS X partition). For what it's worth, we have never had this symptom. [Note: Deleting, rather than adding, this file has been a common technique for fixing this symptom in Mac OS 8/9. The reason is that the file gets corrupted.]
Moving your swapfile Moving your virtual memory swapfile to a separate partition can supposedly speed up your Mac's performance, or at least reduce the amount of disk access. If you are willing to delve into using UNIX commands, this MacFixIt Forums thread (Need help setting up a swap partition) explains how to do it. Among other things, it makes reference to this page, which also provides details.
System Preferences not sticking Readers continue to report problems with System Preferences settings not always sticking. It's likely a bug, as discussed in this MacFixIt Forums thread (System Preferences Don't Stick). Jason Sayatovic informs us that installing the recently released Prefling 1.0 eliminated this problem for him; he was specifically finding that Display preferences were not preserved.
More help on deleting files In this MacFixIt Forums thread, a posting asks "Why can't I delete certain files as root?" A reply offers a solution using the chflags nouchg command.